Objective: to understand how nurses deal with the elderly’s autonomy at the end of life. Method: qualitative, exploratory study, guided by the Grounded Theory. Ten nurses, eight doctors and 15 nursing technicians were interviewed between November 2016 and May 2017 at a university hospital in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil. Results: nurses deal with the elderly’s autonomy in compliance with the code of ethics and exercise leadership in actions and interactions to defend this right, evaluating, guiding and listening to the preferences of the elderly; interacting with the family; and sharing information with the health team. Final considerations: the elderly’s autonomy must be ensured in care planning, based on patient-centered communication and developed in the interaction among agents involved in care. The discussion on “Living Wills” Health Care Directives and principles of palliative care must be encouraged.

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Objective: To understand the conditions that influence the adherence and application of best practices by nurses in the context of the Nursing care management in the Kangaroo Mother Care in the Neonatal ICU. Method: Study of qualitative approach, whose theoretical and methodological frameworks were Symbolic Interactionism and Grounded Theory, respectively. We used the in-depth interview with 8 nurses from the Neonatal ICU of a public maternity hospital in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Results: The conditions involved in adhering to the best practices of humanization in the Neonatal ICU are related mainly to human resources, interaction among professionals, work processes and leadership strategies; and care management. Conclusion: Professional and institutional challenges have been identified that need to be addressed to improve adherence and implementation of the Kangaroo Mother Care best practices.

There are difficulties for nursing professionals to interact with the child's family and the dialogical order/disorder/interaction/organization in the implementation of the management process of care is.

The study aimed to understand the intervening conditions in the interactions of nurses in managing the nursing care for hospitalized children with chronic conditions. To do that, it used Complex Thinking and Grounded Theory as theoretical and methodological references, respectively. Eighteen subjects participated in the study, pooled into three sample groups: nurses, nursing technicians, and their families. A semi-structured interview was used for data collection. Data analysis followed three stages of coding: open, axial, and selective. The study considered family members, professional experience, the physical structure of the unit, human and material resources, good mood, job satisfaction, confidence, dialogue, and empathy as conditions that influence nurses' interactions in care management. It found that subjective, cognitive, socio-cultural and institutional conditions influence the interactions of nurses, creating order/disorder in nursing care management.