Poster Presentation
Wednesday, 19 July 2006
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Wednesday, 19 July 2006
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
The Experience of a Cancer: A Qualitative Approach with Systematic Review of Resignify of Life
Patricia Ferreira, RN, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Hospital Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
| Learning Objective #1: Cancer is a disease of serious connotation and stigma and, in face of it, it was necessary to find methods of reorganizing our lives |
| Learning Objective #2: The experience provided us certain spiritual enrichment, a unique opportunity to rediscovery our lives |
Cancer is a public health problem in many countries. This type of cancer is fourth most frequent tumor among women in Brazil and it occurs mostly with residents of the São Paulo State. There are forecasts that predict that is incidence will reach 25.790 people this year. This research is a systematic review of qualitative approach, through single terms: life, interned patients, nursing, sick, family relationships, nurse-patient relationship, patients emotion life quality, history of patient life, all of wich were researched in the folllowing database:Lilacs, Sciielo, Cochrane, Google and Medline from 1960 to 2005. Anaalyzed 6177 abstracts, these were choose 66 articles . According to the author`s narratives, according with their experience with "getting sick with cancer" and, through the analysis of the content of Bardin (1977), the terms were linked to the contents found in the databases.Cancer is a disease of serius connotation and stigma. The experience provide us certain spiritual enrichment, a unique opportunity to rediscover our lives. The care provide by the health workers, specially the one provide by the nursing staff, when they didn`t just limit the care to technical service but also valued the emotional, taking care with love, made all the difference. Love is a feeling very difficult to define, but it is easily noticed; it encourages and reinvigorates the actions. "Love cures and the lack of kills". However, it is useless to take care of others if with we do not take care of ourselves. It is not possible to deal with the feelings, the suffering, the disease, the death of the other people, if we are not prepared to work with our own emotions and difficulties in taking care. The nurse need to search for selfknowledge because it is "imposssible to struggle for the patient`s psychological homeostasis if the nurse is not meeting her own psychosocial needs".
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