title: Family visitors and companions of hospitalized elderly and adults: analysis of the experience from the perspective of the nursing working process.
abstract: This is a qualitative study using Grounded Theory as the methodological reference and the Process of Work in Nursing as the theoretical reference in order to understand the role assumed by nurses regarding hospital norms and routines applied to family visitors and companions of adult and elderly patients in a teaching hospital. Data analysis identified the theme: defining the modality of family support during hospitalization. This theme aggregates two main categories: becoming the family visitor and becoming the family companion. Through the analysis, it could be observed how established rules, which aims at disciplining and developing an efficient work in the hospital, can expose the lack of autonomy in the work process to modify relations in this context and how the familiar appropriation, as part of the health team, is far from being considered in the institutions.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Medical School of Botucatu. sbocchi@fmb.unesp.br
authors.forename: Silvia Cristina
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Mangini Bocchi
authors.forename: Lucía
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: Carmen Maria Caquel
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Monti Juliani
authors.forename: Wilza Carla
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Spiri
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005190:Family; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses; D009736:Nursing Process; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014789:Visitors to Patients