• Adriana Ferreira da Silva, Helena Becker Issi, Maria da Graça Corso da Motta, and Daisy Zanchi de Abreu Botene.
• Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil.
• Rev Gaucha Enferm. 2015 Jun 1; 36 (2): 56-62.

ObjectiveTo reveal the perceptions, expertise and practices of multi-professional teams providing palliative care to children in a paediatric oncology unit. The research questions were based on everyday care, facilitations and difficulties, essential aspects of professional approaches, and the inter-disciplinary focus of care for children in palliative care and their families.MethodQualitative, exploratory and descriptive research. Data were collected from June to October 2013 from nine professional multidisciplinary team members by means of a semi-structured interview submitted to thematic analysis.ResultsThe following four themes emerged from analysis: palliative care: conceptions of the multi-professional team; the construction of singular care; the facilitations and difficulties experienced by the team and significant lessons learned.ConclusionsThe subjects revealed that the team also suffers with the death of a child and, like the family, moves toward the construction of coping mechanisms for the elaboration of mourning. Paradoxically, the team shares knowledge to determine the foundations of a singular therapeutic project and inserts the family in this process so that it can be the protagonist of the child's care.

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