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The article presents a reflection concerning the necessity of a shared care to the child in the hospital between the families and the nursing as a humanization strategy of the care. It weaves some considerations concerning the humanized, familiar and nursing care to the child in the hospital. It finds out that, despite the legislation in force, the limits of the families’ performance in the hospital context are...
Fathers have increasingly participated in child care. The objective of this study was to identify the perceptions of the nursing staff as the presence of the father as a caregiver in pediatric units. A qualitative, descriptive, and exploratory study was conducted during the first semester of 2005 in a pediatric unit of a university hospital in Brazil. Four nurses and fifteen orderlies were interviewed using sem...