Results: Three topics were originated: nurses'
understanding about practices that contribute to a care guided by the FCC; FCC practices: benefits for staff of nurses and Family
indicate the child's well-being and the kangaroo mother care; Difficulties in understanding of the targeted care practices by FCC.
Conclusion: The applicability of the FCC is wrongly understood, and portrays the unpreparedness of professionals to deal with
the family as co-responsible in the healthcare process of hospitalized children disease.