This is the report of an experience lived as a nursing teacher about care teaching to the relatives staying with patients hospitalized who had a spinal medulla injury resulting from a spinal cord injury. The work was conducted in an emergency and trauma hospital at the city of Fortaleza, Ceará, the place in which we carry out the practical activities of the "Nursing of the Caretaking Process II" course, offered for students of the 5th Semester of the B.Sc. course in Nursing of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Dentistry and Nursing of the Federal University of Ceará. The evaluation of the learning shows that care learning is: complicated, tiresome, simple, rewarding and pleasant. That way of teaching presents itself as a condition to search for a better life quality of the patients and the relatives of the patients with spinal medulla injury.
Family Nursing; Education in Nursing; Spinal Medulla Injury