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Introduction: The intensive care unit (ICU) stay generates feelings of lack of control, uncertainty, and anxiety in the patient and their families related to a lack of information and communication about the health-disease process experienced and the treatment. Objective: to describe the characteristics of communication in the ethnos between the nurse and the family member of the hospitalized patient. Method: a qualitative study with a micro ethnographic approach that used Bardin's proposal for the analysis. The participants were 12 relatives of patients hospitalized in the adult ICU in Bucaramanga and Floridablanca (Colombia) during 2016. A semi-structured interview was conducted with five questions about communication with the nurse practitioner. Results: most of the participants were women, university students, and daughters from cities other than the place of the interview. The main theme that emerges was communication: an honest, direct, and authentic relationship between human beings, made up of four categories: information as the central axis of communication in ICU; communication that is not expressed in words, which is even more important in the relationship; communication does not flow if there is no time, disposition, and conditions to establish the relationship; and communication generates positive feelings and satisfaction. Conclusion: communication as a social process framed in the ICU as a particular ethnos demand from the nurse practitioners’ qualities such as kindness, cordiality, empathy, recognition, and understandable language, as well as feedback and willingness to establish and maintain this vital process for human relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed at describing the meanings that a group of hospitalized pregnant attributed to the experience of having preeclampsia. It is a qualitative research of ethno nursing type. To collect the information the Observation-participation-reflection guide, given by Leininger was taken into account. Open interviews were conducted to eight pregnant women as key informants and five nurses as general informants. The sample was obtained by saturation of information. During data analysis, the four phases proposed by Leininger were applied: data collection, identification and categorization of descriptors and components, analysis of context and patterns and establishment of central themes. The results of this research provide theoretical knowledge to give culturally coherent care to pregnant women with preeclampsia and thus be a complement to their comprehensive care. Women require the health care team that serves them to inform them clearly and comprehensively about their health situation, that of their unborn child and the care they need. Women know about signs and alarming symptoms of preeclampsia, but do not perceive them. The emotional, social and spiritual changes produced in women by their illness and hospitalization need to be considered for nursing care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]