Family culture versus institutional hospital culture: a relation between two worlds.

Objective: To understand the relation between family culture and hospital institutional culture.

Method: Qualitative study, carried out in 2017, with relatives of children admitted to a Hospital in southern Brazil. The study included non-participant observation, to gain familiarity with the investigated cultural context; participant observation, to know the respondents' experiences; and interviews.

Beliefs, values and practices of families in the care of hospitalized children: subsidies for nursing.

Objective: To know the beliefs, values and practices of families in the care of hospitalized children.

Method: Qualitative study developed at the Pediatrics Unit of a University Hospital in southern Brazil through non-participant observation, participant observation and interview with children's family members. The methodological framework of Ethnonursing was adopted.