Ludic care for hospitalized children: perspective of family caregivers and nursing staff

Abstract

Objective: This study aimed to known how the ludic care has been incorporated into the making of the professional nurses and family caregivers during the hospitalization of the child. Method: This is an exploratory-descriptive research, with qualitative approach, conducted in the first half of 2011, with nursing professionals and family caregivers of hospitalized children at the Pediatric Unit of a medium-sized Hospital. The data collection was performed by semi-structured interviews and the analysis by Bardin's Content Analysis. Results: Three categories emerged: Importance of ludic care; difficulties to perform the ludic care and Strategies used to provide the ludic care for the child in hospital. Conclusion: The study showed that it is necessary to consolidate the challenge of incorporating the ludic care at the Pediatric not only to treatment of diseases but to the promotion of the child health in an expanded context, easing the trauma of hospitalization and its possible consequences. Descriptors: