Emotional nursing labour in the childcare at the end-of-life and their family: A sistematic review

Emotional nursing labour in the childcare at the end-of-life and their family: A sistematic review

Diogo P; Vilelas J; Rodrigues L; Almeida T

Atencion Primaria

2015

We intend to present a systematization of scientiic evidence about the emotional labour of nurses in the process of childcare in the end-of-life and their family. It was performed a literature search in the databases CINAHL, Medline, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, from which we obtained nine studies for analysis and responses to the research questions: "How nurses perform the emotional labour inherent to nursing care provided to children in the end-of-life and their family?" and "What are the nursing sensitive outcomes?". The indings highlights the focus of the emotional labour, simultaneously focused in the child and family, extolling the philosophy of familycentered care and also focused on the nurses themselves, because they are also affected by the emotional responses of clients and their need to manage these emotions in their care practice. The emotional labour is featured as part of the care process, as key competence in caring, as a stressful experience and as a regulation of their own emotions, and presents nursing sensitive outcomes. Caring for children at the end-of-life is one of the biggest emotional challenges for parents and nurses. Nurses play an emotional labour enrolled in the philosophy of holism and care relationship.

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