[Sheltering: whose responsibility is it? An experience report].

This paper is about the sheltering of users in a basic health unit in Porto Alegre/RS according to the experience during the Integrated Residency Program in Collective Health at the Public Health School and reflections about specific bibliography. Sheltering is the manner in which the health service is organized to attend to its users and to answer their demands, relying on health education processes aiming to build a different relation than that established in "emergency rooms". It is believed that the nurse is the professional indicated for this task because of its basic education in collectivity and integralized human care.