Atuação do enfermeiro frente à criança e ao adolescente com câncer: limites e possibilidades

Objective: to analyze the limits and possibilities of nurses' performance in providing care to children and adolescents with cancer. Methodology: qualitative research. Thirty nurses participated, from interviews, following a semi-structured script, whose data were processed in the IRAMUTEQ software. Results: as a possibility for nurses to work in pediatric oncology, the following was verified: the participation of the family and the multiprofessional team in coping with the disease of children and adolescents, and as limits: the lack of technical skills, family instruction in the face of the diagnosis and institutional psychological support in the face of death. Conclusion: to analyze the limits and possibilities of the oncologist nurse's performance, it is necessary, not only aiming at quality assistance, but also for contributing to an enlarged view, from the professional, giving voice to his emotions and feelings involved in the oncological assistance.