O cuidado de si dos profissionais da equipe de enfermagem oncológica

Abstract

Facing the current scenario of cancer in Brazil and the world, this study aimed at oncological nursing professionals about self-care. We used the phenomenological approach based on the theoretical framework, philosophical and methodological of Martin Heidegger. The scenario was a reference institution in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer located in the city of Juiz de Fora in the Zona da Mata Mineira and 18 professional nurses and nursing technicians working in oncology participated for at least one year. From the first methodical moment, the comprehensive analysis consisted of three Units of Meaning: Try to self-care taking care of health, practicing physical activities, going to the gym, walking and trying to enjoy moments of day off and leisure, not getting involved with the patient and not absorbing their problems, besides mentioning the care of the religious part and of other close people as a self-care; do not have time to take self-care because of the work routine and can not separate the experience of work and home, and still report that they take care of everything around, but do not stop thinking about themselves; and know that care is important to life, avoiding illness and increasing self-esteem, turning this care to physical health and also to aspects that involve much more than this, such as well-being, self-esteem, quality of life, balance, self-love. In the second moment, the interpretive or hermeneutic understanding revealed the senses, bringing to light the phenomena of being-there-professional-on-nursing-on-care-of-self, creating the existential movement of this being, encompassing all the structures of modes of being: talk, decadence, occupation and ambiguity. It was possible to grasp the forms they use to take care of themselves, but also the factors that lead to their absence, becoming main point to be worked, in order to take care of themselves as a healthy and common practice in their daily lives, besides being better prepared to take care of the other.