Qualitative research aims to respond the guiding question "how is intersubjective relationship estabilished during nursing care to a child in post-surgical phasis pain?" whiting de Paterson and Zderad's Humanistic Theory (1979) carried out a descriptive-exploratory approach. The objectified to identify intersubjective relationship brought about during caring action as well as to unveil how nursing care is undertaken to a child in post-surgical phasis pain. Information was gathered with eight nursesby means of a recorded semi-structured interview. Qualitative Text Analysis proposed by Moraes (2003) was used for the analytical process of the accounts. Three categories emerged from that analysis with six units of meaning. It deems to be sensitive to others' suffering, to be present, to know how to listen, to touch, to relate, it requires to get closer in order to perceive a child's subjective features, how he/she reacts physically and emotionally to suffering from pain. That humanistic nursing care must be delineated from a multidimensional perception of the existential pain experience that a child undergoes.
Child care; Nursing-child relationship; Pain postoperative