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Objectives: to know the meaning attributed by family members to the health safety of pediatric patients, with attention to the possibilities of their collaboration., Methods: this qualitative study was conducted with eighteen family members of children hospitalized in a pediatric unit, from January to July 2018. Symbolic Interactionism was used as a theoretical framework, and Inductive Content Analysis as method., Results: child hospitalization poses risks to possible incidents and adverse events. Participants and professionals are responsible for patient safety. Thus, their actions focus on error prevention. Therefore, they seek information and observe in a vigil way professional care in classic aspects of safety. They conceive essential and favoring safety the approach centered on children and family members. Final Considerations: family members recognized the chances of errors and care damage, identified themselves as support in minimizing damage and were in partnership with the professional, increasing chances of effecting safety.

Objective: to understand the experience of families about school experiences of children and adolescents with visual impairment., Method: a qualitative study developed through the Symbolic Interactionism and narrative research. Data were collected through a semi-structured recorded interview, with eleven families of children/adolescents with visual impairment, totaling 40 participants., Results: two phenomena emerged: "exclusion context" and "impaired school performance". Prejudice experienced at school brings devastating consequences to the life of the visually impaired child/adolescent and his family. Isolation occurs, difficulty adapting to the support resource and deficits in school performance., Final Considerations: production contributes to awakening professionals involved with the assistance of these people. Effective participation of health professionals in this area is required to develop actions with students, teachers and families, aimed at meeting the needs of learning and health promotion, inclusion, and respect for differences.

Objective: To explore factors that interact and shape the meaning and experience of mothers of HIV-exposed children in relation to replacing breastfeeding by infant formula., Method: A qualitative study was carried out with 23 mothers living with HIV, whose children were up to 18 months of age and under follow-up in a specialized care service. Symbolic Interactionism, semi-structured interviews and content analysis were adopted as theoretical framework., Results: The social symbols of breastfeeding, the (un)availability of the milk formula and the (lack of)support of health professionals influenced the mothers' experience with formula feeding. Social, cultural and economic constraints have proved capable of undermining the conditions necessary for the replacement of breastfeeding., Final Considerations: The availability of infant formula, access to lactation inhibitor and quality of health services still represent challenges to eradicate new HIV infections in children.

Objective: to understand the experience of mothers of technology-dependent children as regards pharmaceutical care., Method: this was a qualitative, descriptive-exploratory study developed based on open interviews using a structured characterization tool, and applied during home visits to 12 mothers caring for technology-dependent children. The data was submitted to inductive content analysis., Results: this study is split into two themes: (i) maternal overload during pharmaceutical care, demonstrating the need to administer drugs continuously and the repercussions of this exhaustive care on the caregivers; (ii) the ease or difficulty of access to the medicines required, showing informal strategies and support networks., Conclusion: pharmaceutical care is a daily challenge expressed in maternal overload and difficulty accessing the drugs, made worse by failures in the care network and coordinated care.

The purpose of this study was to understand how the family faces the challenge of having a child with Down Syndrome among its members, so that, from this understanding, nurses can propose and carry out a careful emphasis on family responses to current and potential problems experienced. Symbolic Interactionism and the initial steps of Grounded Theory were used. The study comprised eight families and the results of a phenomenon were presented: "Going though cloudy periods" and its categories: "Faced with the unimaginable", "Adapting to the new reality" and "Living with disappointments". Throughout the experience, families face periods of uncertainty and doubt, requiring new attitudes and coping with the unknown. Health professionals, specifically in nursing, have remained outside the work done with these families. The need to guide and support such families is vital, particularly in coping with periods of difficulties and doubts, in order to minimize and possibly avoid them.

Network and social support are resources that nursing can offer to families. This review identifies which aspects of social support are being investigated for the family of the cancer patient. Fifty one articles were found of which 70% were quantitative research and 26% were published in the last two years. The issues addressed were: Family caregivers as provider of social support; Factors that interfere with social support; Religiosity as social support as well as support coming from educative programs, group activity and technological resources. Of these papers, 49% were written by nurses, with international emphasis on needs assessment, family experiences and support offered, while national articles emphasize definition concepts and identifying family needs focusing on intervention planning.

This report discusses the nursing activities developed by a group of professionals within the family context. Children and their families maintain relationships determined historically by the social context within which they live. According to the National Survey by Address Sampling, 53.5% of Brazilian children and adolescents live in families whose monthly income per capita is under one half of a minimum salary. The consequences of the country's recessive economy have a serious effect upon the entire population, potentially interfering in the family's health and, thus, in that of children and adolescents. When working with families we must consider what the family believes to be its function, since, despite the fact that the Children's and Adolescent's Statute gives the legal definition of family obligations, it is the family's beliefs that actually direct or define the role it plays in caring for and protecting each of its members. The "Support Couples" project, directed by this group, takes into consideration a family's particular characteristics so that it can offer support to the family to help it meet those legal requirements related to child and adolescent care. The objective of this work is to divulge the Project itself, and to place professional nurses in activities that are directly related to the promotion and maintenance of children's and adolescent's rights as citizens inserted into a family and social context.