[The relation between the nursing team and patient's family: implications for care]

Study of qualitative nature, developed along with the nursing team and the accompanying relatives of interned customers in a public hospital at Vitória/ES. The objectives were to describe the bases that sustain the relations among those subjects; to analyze the dynamics of this relation; and to discuss its implications for the nursing care. The theoretical reference was linked to the studies of power relations in the disciplined hospital environment and the care in a humanized perspective concept. The data collection was through a participant observation and semi-structured interviews. The results pointed out that those relations don't happen lineally. At same time that conflicting experiences emerge, there is another whose position of one and other subject reveals sensibility and solidarity that implicate directly in the delivered care to the hospitalized customer.