A mulher imigrante na centralidade da interação com o enfermeiro: Constrangimentos e Estratégias de Superação

Abstract

Introduction: Nurses develop strategies to overcome the constraints in their interaction with pregnant immigrants; Objectives: To understand how nurses experience the constraints when interacting with the immigrant pregnant woman and the strategies they use to overcome these constraints; Methods: phenomenological-hermeneutic study using a semi-structured phenomenological interview  to ten nurses working in the labour ward of a hospital in Greater Lisbon. Qualitative data analysis supported by Nvivo12. This work is part of the project MEIOS - Intercultural Mediation and Outcomes in Health, developed by the Higher Education Network in Intercultural Mediation and the High Commission for Migration, authorized by Portuguese Data Protection Authority and the Ethics Committee of the Institution involved; Results: The category “Nurses' constraints in the interaction with immigrant women” emerges, with emphasis on the “Cultural barrier”, and particularly the “Language barrier”; and the category “Strategies used by the midwives in the interaction with immigrant women”, with emphasis on “Using a family member as interpreter for the immigrant woman”, and “Using sign language”; Conclusions: The cultural barrier presents itself as a major constraint and the use of family members as interpreters and sign language are the main strategies adopted to facilitate cultural encounters.