How the hemotherapy nursing team perceives touch during the transfusion procedure.

OBJECTIVES: to identify how the nursing team perceives tacesic nonverbal communication during transfusion and describe how this perception influences hemotherapy care. METHODS: a descriptive and exploratory study with a qualitative approach, anchored in Hall's proxemic communication theory. Participant observation and interviews were carried out with 25 nursing professionals in a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro. The data collected between April and December 2022 were analyzed using thematic content. RESULTS: three categories emerged: Meanings of touch for the hemotherapy nursing team during the transfusion act; Nonverbal tacesic body signals and expressions emitted during nursing care in the transfusion act; and The different types of touch in hospital transfusion nursing practice. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: touch marks the sensitive quality of the nursing team's care and has a positive effect on the client's affective dimension during the transfusion act.