To face an hospitalization is not easy task and when the patient is a blind person it becomes still more complex, because the lack of the vision delays the person's adaptation. The nursing team works with the patient and needs fo ofter support on the moment of crisis. The nurse, as boss of the nursing team, needs to be qualified for intervening. This work is a case study where the authors intended to reflect about the nursing attendance offered during a blind person hospitalization. The qualitative analysis of the data based on the thematic categories model and showed that the esperience of blind person hospitalization envolved communication, nursing attendance, ethics, the human rights and blindness.
nursing; blindness; communication; ethics