Ana Paula de Oliveira Santos, Thais Nogueira Piton, Climene Laura de Camargo, M. A. Vargas, Lara Máyra Jesus da Silva Almeida, Mirna Gabriela Prado Gonçalves Dias
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Abstract
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.
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Aquichan, a journal of medical and health sciences from the field of health sciences and, more specifically, nursing, publishes articles resulting from investigations from a point of view of epistemology, evidence-based practice, chronic care, promotion and prevention. The articles are for the academic and scientific community, both in Colombia and abroad.
The journal accepts original, previously unpublished papers in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, which are the product of a research or a review and which are not being evaluated by other scientific journals, either in print or electronic form.