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Introduction: The naming of intensive care units (ICUs) has varied over time. From intensive surveillance units, intensive care units, intensive medicine units to critical care units. In practice these denominations seem to overlap to such an extent that surveillance seems to prevail over care. Methodology: reflexive article with a hermeneutic phenomenological approach that addresses the phenomenon of daily life in the ICU in relation to spatial design, power relations and time lived in order to problematize the denomination Intensive Care Unit as opposed to Intensive Surveillance Unit. Results: the daily life of the ICU is a regulated and highly controlled space, in which the life of professionals and patients is conducted through different mechanisms to such an extent that it has characteristics of what authors such as Goffman consider total institutions. In which, through depersonalization mechanisms, the characteristic heterogeneity of the human being is homogenized. Conclusion: Caring implies to watch, to be attentive, to be on guard and to control in some cases. However, it is not reduced to this; caring also implies recognizing oneself as a finite and vulnerable being, that is, as an eminently compassionate being. Care cannot be authoritarian, nor can it undermine the capacity of agency of the subjects of care; on the contrary, it is a possibility that allows us to resist the structures and devices that control life. Caring as an instinctive and reflexive act at the same time, supposes a double nature between pathos and logos, this same nature cannot be blurred inside the ICU. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On a daily basis, nurses face ethical challenges and moral dilemmas. Their work is identified with the highest moral and social values: human life, the dignity of the person and freedom. All this makes nursing an authentic moral practice. This condition requires that its professionals must develop both technical competence and moral capacity, inspired by the solidarity dimension that appears in the face of human vulnerability. Circumstance that obliges the professional to pursue moral excellence through instruction in the knowledge of laws and moral principles, and to acquire and put into practice the virtues that allow achieving the internal good of the profession. The objective of this study is to identify and describe the virtues that nurses must acquire to carry out their work in an excellent way. Thus, the nurse who acquires the virtues of humility, prudence, trust, fidelity, diligence, truthfulness, discretion, empathy, sensitivity, respect, compassion, altruism and responsibility will be able to achieve excellence in care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this reflective article is to analyze how the relationship between nursing care and comparison ethics is maintained and some effects of the protocolization of care in said relationship. Methodology: The delimitation of the analysis topic arises within the framework of a narrative exercise of care experiences, in the conceptual categories nursing care - comparison - protocol are interrelated. A reflective theoretical analysis is carried out mainly from the phenomenology of M. Heidegger and the philosophy of finitude from JC Melich. Conclusion: the relationship between caring and compassion is inherent. You can't be careful without compassion and you can't have compassion without care, compassion exalts nursing care and this is your time is the hope of an ethic of compassion. However, this can be broken down by the protocolization of nursing care and practices, taking care away from its true essence, the ethics of compassion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to describe a reflection based on an experience about the communication. In this experience, the interpretation of the message was essential. The first step of the sanitary intervention is the interview with the patient. After that, we can detect their needs and begin to act properly. The inadequate interpretation of the data obtained by the interview may conduct to unexpected outcomes. Frequently, the patients reinterpret or even reinvent the names of the drugs which are part of their usual treatment. Sometimes, it may also happen with the name of their diseases or the description of their underlying pathology. They may be influenced by several factors (cultural, geographical, etc). Decipher its true meaning may pose a real challenge sometimes. A recent conversation with my grandmother led me to reflect on the relationship between healthcare professionals and patients. This reflection is presented in this paper.

Work in the health field can be very demanding at the affective level. The emotional component in the personal relationship affects all those involved: patients, families and professionals. It can lead us to feel upset, as in this story, when we believe that our actions have proved futile. On numerous occasions we do not come to know our real impact on the lives of patients. All health professionals have some experience that moves us. This is mine.

The aim of this paper is to describe a reflection based on an experience about the communication. In this experience, the interpretation of the message was essential. The first step of the sanitary intervention is the interview with the patient. After that, we can detect their needs and begin to act properly. The inadequate interpretation of the data obtained by the interview may conduct to unexpected outcomes. Frequently, the patients reinterpret or even reinvent the names of the drugs which are part of their usual treatment. Sometimes, it may also happen with the name of their diseases or the description of their underlying pathology. They may be influenced by several factors (cultural, geographical, etc). Decipher its true meaning may pose a real challenge sometimes. A recent conversation with my grandmother led me to reflect on the relationship between healthcare professionals and patients. This reflection is presented in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Work in the health field can be very demanding at the affective level. The emotional component in the personal relationship affects all those involved: patients, families and professionals. It can lead us to feel upset, as in this story, when we believe that our actions have proved futile. On numerous occasions we do not come to know our real impact on the lives of patients. All health professionals have some experience that moves us. This is mine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]