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Needs of Parents in Caring for Their Children in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Mery Luz Valderrama Sanabria1, Lucy Muñoz de Rodríguez2
1Universidad de los Llanos, Villavicencio, Colombia, mvalderrama@unillanos.edu.co.
Objective:
This work sought to describe the needs of parents to participate in caring for their children hospitalized in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).
Methods:
This is a qualitative study based on the ethno-nursing research method proposed by Leininger. For data collection and analysis, in-depth open interviews were used, along with field notes and enabler guidelines proposed by Leininger: stranger-friend, observation, participation, reflexion, and the Sunrise model. Parents of children hospitalized in a PICU in the city of Tunja (Boyacá, Colombia) participated between February 2012 and October 2013.
Results:
The needs of parents to care for their children were described in the following themes: clear and timely communication, familiarization with technology, the value of the family, favoring the parent-children interaction during visits, and valuing and respecting generic (folk) knowledge.
Conclusion:
The study provides knowledge, from the cultural perspective of parents with children hospitalized in PICU, as input to plan and develop care actions with them, according to their own needs.
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