The following research was conducted aiming to describe the feelings of family companions during the hospitalization of family members and identify the strategies adopted by the nursing team to help the family companion in coping with the hospitalization in an internal medicine unit. This is a qualitative study, using the Creative and Sensitive Method for the production of data through the "Almanac" dynamic. Data were subjected to French discourse analysis emerging two topics: feeling of family companions from the hospitalization process and strategies of nursing team to help family companion in coping patient's hospitalization. Identify the feelings of loneliness, abandonment, apprehension, desperation, and impotence. Strategies like praying and support groups, the use of clear and cohesive communication and the establishment of a supportive relationship with a family companion will contribute in overcoming those feelings.
Nursing; Hospitalization; Patient Escort Service