The purpose of this paper was to understand how the mothers perceive some aspects of care provided to their children. That was a qualitative study whose data were obtained by means of semi-structured interviews. Seven interviews were carried out with children's caregivers who were hospitalized in a public hospital in Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, in 2006. For data analysis it was used a referential related to the elaborated thematics. Five thematics appeared: Caring in the sense of establishing procedures, Identifying the caring professional, the Professional and the specialized and/or painful care, Night Care, and Difficulties in the relationship between caregivers and professionals. We can conclude that health care is still very much limited to technical procedures, knowing how to do, there is also a gap regarding to the importance and meaning of more humanized care, integral to with human beings.
Child care; Child, hospitalized; Patient care team