[Family's abilities and diffculties in caring for children with cerebral palsy]. / Facilidades e dificuldades da familia no cuidado à criança com paralisia cerebral.

This is a qualitative research and exploratory-descriptive study aimed at finding out the family's abilities and difficulties in caring for children with cerebral palsy. Data was collected from seven families, between March and April 2009, through semi-structured interviews. The analysis followed the principles of thematic interpretation. The diffculties are more evident than the abilities and bring repercussions to daily life activities. Dealing with difficulties to control seizures, spasticity, changes in postural tone, occurrence of primitive reflexes, result in the complexity to perform simple tasks like feeding, bathing, locomotion, because children become increasingly dependent on caregivers. Over time, the difficulties give way to the routine and adaptation to the child's daily life. Strengthening relationships with families by improving their bonds and developing quality and comprehensive actions, promotes the welfare of the family/child with cerebral palsy.

[Work process of the nurse who works in child care in family health units]. / Processo de trabalho da enfermeira que atua em puericultura nas unidades de saúde da família.

This is a qualitative research, which purpose was to analyse the working process of nurse in child care actions in family health units. Nurses are the subjects and empirical data was achieved by the means of participant observation, and interviews. Data analysis followed thematic analysis fundaments. Results reveal that working process organization of nurses still remains centered in proceedings with an offert of assistance based in client illness, showing obstacles to puericulture practice in health basic attention.