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Aquichan
Print version ISSN 1657-5997On-line version ISSN 2027-5374
Abstract
PETERSEN DE OLIVEIRA SANTOS, Ana Carla et al. Institutional Violence against Hospitalized Children: The Perception of Nursing Professionals. Aquichan [online]. 2023, vol.23, n.2, e2323. Epub Apr 10, 2023. ISSN 1657-5997. https://doi.org/10.5294/aqui.2023.23.2.3.
Objective:
To understand the perception of the Nursing team about institutional violence against hospitalized children.
Materials and method:
A qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study, performed at a large-size public hospital in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, with 17 Nursing professionals working in the Pediatrics unit, to whom semi-structured interviews were applied between March and May 2019. The collected data were categorized in the NVIVO12 software and submitted for content analysis.
Results:
The results are presented in four categories: The professionals’ lack of knowledge about institutional violence against hospitalized children; Recognition of institutional violence related to problems in the hospital infrastructure, Recognition of institutional violence in interpersonal relationships and Recognition of institutional violence in the care practices.
Conclusions:
It becomes necessary to apply policies to confront institutional violence, ranging from training the professionals to adapting the spaces and care practices to favor the children’s hospitalization environment.
Keywords : Pediatric Nursing; child violence; Nursing care; in-hospital care; child.