UNIDADE DE TERAPIA INTENSIVA-PEDIÁTRICA: COMPREENSÃO DAS NECESSIDADES DOS FAMILIARES DOS PACIENTES INTERNADOS

The hospitalization of a patient in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (ICU-P), usually occurs in a acute and severe state, leaving little time for family members to adjust and understand the sociopathological factors. Faced with this situation, the Family members may feel helpless and find it difficult to mobilize, causing diferente types of needs to emerge that can be disaggregated by the lack of information and prior knowledge about the ICU environment. Objective: To investigate the challengs of family members of patients who are hosptalized in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (ICU-P). Method: This is a literature review that seeks to understand the difficulties of Family members of patients admitted to ICU-P, and understand how the host Family are essential. The work ocurred through a literary research that included researches carried out based on scientific articles, available in the databases: Scielo and Lilacs, during the year 2018 to 2021. Result: demonstrate how important it is to understand and show sympathy to the family of the hospitalized patient in the ICU-P, and the effectiveness of having a structural and positive team When seeing a family as a whole in the bio-psyco-social process of treating the child who is affected in the ICU-P.