This study aimed to know the meaning of humanized care give to patients in intensive therapy, from the perspective of seventeen health professionals who worked at the Intensive Therapy Unit of a philanthropic hospital in the metropolitan region of Sobral city - Ceára, Brazil. The data was collected through an instrument with the following question: What does humanized care mean to you? Three analytic categories emerged from data: emotional comfort; physical comfort and professional commitment, whose analysis reveals the improvement of care, which is not configured in technological advances, but in personal values, in the understanding of the true meaning of care, the orientation of care towards physical and emotional comfort, associated with care aimed at relieving pain; care with commitment, applying humanistic practice. It is concluded that the humanistic care process makes professionals reflect about their personal and academic attitudes, always strengthening team work.
Care Humanization; Intensive Care Units; Health Professionals