Em pauta reflexão sobre a Intervenção do Profissional do Serviço Social em UTI’s Neonatais

Abstract

This study intends to bring reflections, theoretical and analytical, regarding the insertion of the professional of Social Work in intensive care units, more specifically in Neonatal unit, based on the experience of the program's training curriculum Urgency and Emergency Residency Program at the Federal University of Pampa, for second year residents (R2). From the insertion in this unit, the practices for carrying out activities, work proposals and challenges faced. To give visibility the experience a qualitative research was carried out with documentary cut in monthly reports produced by the Social Service nucleus within the program and review bibliography on policies, ordinances and legislation that ensure professional practices in this unit. It was also sought as general and specific objectives, to understand what are the main challenges of professional insertion, identify the expressions of the social issue and which public policies guide this practice. During the production of this study, some relevant factors have been highlighted to raise the discussion of the results, such as the lack academic and scientific productions in this specific area, the resistance regarding the insertion of a multidisciplinary team of residents in a strictly closed unit, the importance of having a social worker present in the discussions and assistance, and also identify the demands of the Social Service professional, their possibilities of daily intervention and performance. It becomes of great importance as a demand for Social Service, welcoming and sensitive listening from a humanized perspective in recognition of the subjects' autonomy. Several families emerge in the daily life of families expressions of the social issue, such as low income and education. It’s up to the social worker, critical posture based on the political ethical project, supported by the theoretical and methodological, ethical-political and technical-operative in the intense search for respect for uniqueness of each subject, providing care in a critical and purposeful way.