Assistance to children with cancer: analysis of the work process

Abstract

This study tries to analyse some principle of the working process in the assistance of children with cancer, based on the Model of the Technological Organization of Work. It started from a theoretical principle that nursing is a social practice and so is historically structured, socially articulated, and so nursing is part of the collective process of work. We pointed out toward the fact that the process of the nursing work in assisting a hospitalized child, that it is under a transformation phase, going through the exclusively clinic model to another one, which has some characteristics of amplification to the theoretical reference and a new instrumentalization.