ABSTRACT
Reporting news sensitively is the responsibility of health professionals. In order to analyze speeches of professionals and family members of patients of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a university hospital, qualitative research was conducted with interviews and Conversation Wheel as instruments, guided by the SPIKES protocol. The categories produced were analyzed by the Discursive Practices and Sense Production. The results showed dehumanized ambience; service overload; absence of place and unpreparedness to communicate news and they point out the importance of promoting health communication to improve the quality of work and interpersonal relations.
KEYWORDS
Communication; News; Intensive Care Units, Neonatal