[Critical care nursing professionals' perceptions about the death of the newborn]

This study aims to describe the perceptions of nursing professionals and identify their feelings against the death of newborns in the intensive care unit (ICU). Qualitative research with phenomenological focus. Respondents were nurses and nursing technicians in a neonatal ICU, answering the following research question: How do you feel against the death of the newborn in the ICU where you work? Emerged the question, about this phenomenon, a variety of feelings such as loss, compassion, sadness, resulting in a sensitive world of experience of each one. The analysis has both theoretical contribution the authors dealing with the phenomenology, as scholars of the subject's death. From the understanding of the phenomenon studied, say to be the death of the newborn for nurses in an ICU experience a conflict of feelings, sometimes painful, for the complexity of issue.