Rev Rene (May 2021)

Humanizing intensive nursing care for people with COVID-19

  • Sergio Vital da Silva Junior,
  • Aline Gomes Machado,
  • Anny Michelle Rodrigues da Silva Alves,
  • Katia Jaqueline da Silva Cordeiro,
  • Maíra Bonfim Barbosa,
  • Gilberto Costa Teodozio,
  • Maria Eliane Moreira Freire

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15253/2175-6783.20212262584
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22
p. e62584

Abstract

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Objective: to understand the impact of music on the intensive care for COVID-19 as an instrument to humanize assistance from the perspective of nurses who work on assistance. Methods: qualitative study carried out with seven intensive care nurses working in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit of a public state hospital. Sample reached through theoretical saturation. Data were collected using interviews through the on-line application WhatsApp, guided by a semi-structured guide. Results: the following discursive categories emerged: Feelings of health professionals and humanized actions in intensive care; Music therapy to provide integral care for people with COVID-19 in the score of intensive care; Living in the moment; Music therapy as an instrument for spirituality in the intensive care environment. Conclusion: the nursing intensive care did not only carry out a biological treatment, but considered all aspects of the human being, using to do so humanization by music.

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