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Francisco Gleidson de Azevedo Gonçalves1, Sílvia Teresa Carvalho de Araújo1, Albert Lengruber de Azevedo2
1Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Objectives:
to identify how the nursing team perceives tacesic nonverbal communication during transfusion and describe how this perception influences hemotherapy care.
Methods:
a descriptive and exploratory study with a qualitative approach, anchored in Hall's proxemic communication theory. Participant observation and interviews were carried out with 25 nursing professionals in a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro. The data collected between April and December 2022 were analyzed using thematic content.
Results:
three categories emerged: Meanings of touch for the hemotherapy nursing team during the transfusion act; Nonverbal tacesic body signals and expressions emitted during nursing care in the transfusion act; and The different types of touch in hospital transfusion nursing practice.
Final Considerations:
touch marks the sensitive quality of the nursing team's care and has a positive effect on the client's affective dimension during the transfusion act.
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