OBJECTIVE: To understand how interpersonal relationships are established in the care actions to children in the hospital technological environment. METHODS: The methodology is quantitative, the method is phenomenological and the theoretical framework is that of Paterson & Zderad. Interviews were carried out with ten health team professionals. RESULTS: The phenomenological analyses resulted in 11 meaning units and four converging categories: understanding that humanistic attitude mobilizes interpersonal relationships in the hospital technological environment; the interpersonal relationships in the hospital technological environment involving the health team; the meaning of the family's presence in the interpersonal relationships with the health team; the dynamicity of care permeating the conduct that should be followed in a hospital technological environment. CONCLUSION: The applicability of humanistic concepts in complex environments with a large technological apparatus, such a the Cardiac Pediatric Intensive Care Unit changes beings and actions with a view to build affective and responsibility attachments over health practice actions.
Nursing care; Interpersonal relations; Pediatric nursing