Educative process with relatives of children with special health needs in the hospital-home transition

Abstract

Objective: to analyze the dialogical educative process as a strategy to prepare the relatives of children with special health needs in the transition from hospital to home. Method: qualitative study developed from the Creative Sensitive Method, carried out between February and June 2018 at the Inpatient Unit of a public hospital located in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Family caregivers of nine children with special health needs in transition from hospital to home were included in the study, totaling nine participants. The empirical material was evaluated through the analysis of the French discourse. Results: the educative process allowed the relatives to unveil demands for technological and medicative care, modified habitual elements, clinically complex care and social demands to be worked on by the nurse in the transition from hospital to home. From the analysis, the following category emerged: The educative process as a strategy to prepare the relatives of children with special health needs in the transition from hospital to home. The dialogue was produced, however, without exhausting the I-You relationship, maintaining the dialogicity in the group and encouraging the exchange between the different realities of the relatives. Conclusion: the educative dialogic process is an adequate strategy to prepare the relatives of children with special health needs in the hospital-home transition, where the nurses act as coordinators, suggesting a minimum program-related content.