A espiritualidade na prática do cuidado humanizado na unidade de terapia intensiva

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate whether intensive care professionals feel able and qualified to provide humanized care that considers the spiritual aspects of hospitalized patients or their families, as well as identifying the strategies that aim to promote spiritual well-being. It also aims to verify if the experience of the nursing team professionals’ own spirituality working in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) can influence the implementation of humanized care, which considers spiritual well-being. People admitted to an ICU need holistic care that addresses the physiological, social, psychological and spiritual aspects. Nowadays, due to a change of paradigms in health care, spiritual well-being is now included in the practice of humanized care in the hospital environment. Humanized care is focused on maintaining human dignity and promoting comprehensive care. Sick people in ICUs, as well as their family members, are subject to psychospiritual discomfort, caused by social, family isolation, fear of death and physical pain. The ICU nursing team is impacted by the constant experience of the pain and suffering of others and the intense work routine, which results in psycho-spiritual discomfort.