This research aimed at describing the care experiences of neonatal critical care nurses when facing the death and to understand their feelings before the death of the newborn. Qualitative research with a phenomenological approach, with the guiding question: How do you feel about the death of the newborn ICU where you work? Attended the interview 12 nurses and ICU nursing. Emerging feelings such as guilt, failure and denial. Understanding the phenomenon being studied, we affirm that the death of the newborn within the ICU is an experience of conflicting feelings, sometimes painful for the nurses.

ABSTRACT ABSTRACT This study aims to describe the perceptions of nursing professionals and identify their feelings against the death of newborns in the intensive care unit (ICU). Qualitative research with phenomenological focus. Respondents were nurses and nursing technicians in a neonatal ICU, answering the following research question: How do you feel against the death of the newborn in the ICU where you work? Emerged the question, about this phenomenon, a variety of feelings such as loss, compassion, sadness, resulting in a sensitive world of experience of each one. The analysis has both theoretical contribution the authors dealing with the phenomenology, as scholars of the subject's death. From the understanding of the phenomenon studied, say to be the death of the newborn for nurses in an ICU experience a conflict of feelings, sometimes painful, for the complexity of issue. K K K K Key wor ey wor ey wor ey wor