Experience and Perception of parents with regard to care in Children with Internation in ICU.

Abstract

Summary: Introduction: Some children have health problems that lead them to enter an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), they are patients that require a high level of care. The income in this type of units, which can be changed from one year ago in primary care as Family-Centered Care, focuses on the fact that this income not only directly affects the child and also their parents, who see altered their ideals, their role, the relationships of bond, provoking situations of stress, anguish and anxiety. Objective: This research aims to analyze the perceptions of fathers and mothers with children (admitted to the Intensive Care Unit). Methodology: a qualitative methodology supported by the phenomenological paradigm was used, which complained about the meaning of the experience lived by families in order to know the reality they experience. The study population parents and mothers who have a child admitted to the ICU of the Sanatorium Allende. To this end, in-depth interviews were conducted and recorded using an audio system. Conclusions: The main conclusions allowed to identify that the experience and the perception of the parents about the nursing care, according to the order of hierarchy granted, are related to: Emotional support, Coordination and integration of the care, Information, education and participation of the family, Physical comfort, support for daily activities.