The purpose of the study was to understand the experience of nursing professionals on the care provided to adult patients and relatives who experience the dying process in an emergency room. Statements of 12 nursing professionals, being 8 technicians and…

A qualitative study that aimed to describe the perception of the nursing team over the visit of relatives of patients admitted to Intensive Care Units. The subjects of this study were professionals from the nursing team of the Adult Intensive…

This is a descriptive-exploratory research of qualitative approach, based on the methodology of content analysis proposed by Minayo which aimed to identify the feelings from the coexistence with chronic pathology. Informants of the study were seven individuals, including the chronically…

This study aimed to investigate the perception of the elderly living on a nursing home on the meaning of family and its role in his life. It is an exploratory descriptive study of qualitative approach, carried out with 10 elderly…

Exploratory, cross-sectional, descriptive study with quantitative approach, whose objectives was to identify how satisfied the mother is with her family, as well as family functioning related to infant chronic condition. The study included 59 mothers and one caregiver (grandmother) of…

The illness of a family member causes changes in its dynamics, and when there is diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, it faces a series of stressors that affect the family unit. Thus, the family seeks the readaptation, developing coping…

Indigenous people have specific socio-cultural organization and ethnic knowledge which is resultant of relationship with the environment in which they live and their social dynamics. These factors are related to care practices adopted by the family, being unknown to the…

This article aims to know the experiences concerning the home care of family caregivers of dependent chronic patients. It is a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study with 11 family caregivers of seven registered users in a unit of the Family…

Considering the importance of knowing the habits of care to the newborn, this study aimed to analyze care practices of newborn from the perception of indigenous women. It is a qualitative study with the methodological framework founded on the ethnography…

Despite the advances achieved many patients diagnosed with cancer will not have chance of cure. For the family the diagnosis of cancer brings a host of problems that go beyond the physical aspect, as it is associated with death, pain…