Keywords
care needs
child
carers
nurses
Intensive Care
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Abstract
Objective: To identify the needs of children between 8 and 18 years of age and theircarers and nurses during hospitalization in intensive care. Methods: A descriptivecross-sectional design was used. The sample consisted of a total of 60 participants:20 children, 20 caregivers and 20 nurses. Questionnaire to collect information onCritical Care Family Needs Inventory (CCFNI) was applied. Results: It was foundthat the most common needs were related to the dimension of security and communicationfor caregivers and nurses, and support for children. Conclusions: Given theneeds perceived as priority, the nurse must be careful with how they provide informationand how they approach to the child and the caregiver; also they must seekstrategies to reduce stress that causes the issues covered in the dimensions of safety,support and help, remembering that the human being requires a holistic care. Equallyimportant are the recreational needs expressed by children and their caregivers.The journal Investigación en Enfermería: Imagen y Desarrollo is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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