title: [The help relationship: contexts and practices in nursing].
abstract: The healing relationship emerges lately as a source of nursing care more valued by the sick people, but, given its subjectivity, has been somewhat misunderstood in both its fundamental principles, as in the identification of its importance. Thus, for better understanding of the concepts that underlie the healing relationship, we want with this article to reflect on the concept of healing relationship in nursing care, the emergence of the healing relationships in the context of nursing and its legal and ethical framework in the profession as a therapeutic element.
authors.forename: Rosa Cândida Carvalho Pereira
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: de Melo
mesh_terms: D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing