Abstract

MENDES, Maria Goreti Silva Ramos  and  MARTINS, Maria Manuela Ferreira Pereira da Silva. Partnership in pediatric nursing care: from words into nurses’ action. Rev. Enf. Ref. [online]. 2012, vol.serIII, n.6, pp.113-121. ISSN 0874-0283.  https://doi.org/10.12707/RIII1144.

While it is recognized that paediatric nursing is now particularly sensitive to parental involvement in the care of hospitalized children, numerous studies continue to show that nurses do not establish real partnership with parents. As we wished to know how nurses in paediatrics view the forming process of partnership with parents in healthcare and identify the actions they develop in the setting, we employed a qualitative approach for this study, based on Symbolic Interactionism and Grounded Theory. We took as a starting point the question: How do paediatric nurses describe partnership and how they show it in their day-to-day work? We interviewed 12 nurses from the paediatric unit of a hospital in northern Portugal and we carried out observations of the occurrence of the phenomenon in the setting. The data “corpus” was analysed using Nvivo8 software. Data obtained from the interviews revealed that working in partnership with parents was present in the “thinking” of nurses. However, the observations showed gaps in considering the fundamental dimensions of developing an effective partnership with parents. In summary, the nurses showed evidence of partnership in their thinking but not in their actions.

Keywords : nursing care; nurse; child; family.

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