THE IMPORTANCE OF PLAYING TO THE HOSPITALIZED CHILD: AN INTEGRATIVE REVIEW

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.1592662231103

• Palavras-chave: play therapy; pediatric nursing; hospitalized child.

• Keywords: play therapy; pediatric nursing; hospitalized child.

• Abstract:

  Introduction: The hospital is an environment that has in its physical, technological, human and administrative structure the essential tools for a service with quality, efficiency and effectiveness. The ludic therapy when used in the hospital environment aims at greater integration, social adaptation, and conflict resolution, where the subject expresses his deepest feelings and emotions with the help of symbolic objects. Thus, it is important for nursing to keep up to date with available play resources to obtain qualified assistance in view of humanized care for hospitalized children. Goal: To identify in the Brazilian scientific production ludic nursing care for hospitalized pediatric patients. Methodology: This is an integrative review. A search was carried out in the virtual health library with the following descriptors: “ludotherapy”; “pediatric nursing”, through the Boolean operator “and”, in the period from November to December 2021. The following inclusion criteria were adopted: Portuguese language, with available and full text, time frame of the last five years and in article format scientific. Of the 101 articles found, 11 were selected for analysis. Results: Most studies were carried out in Recife (39%), with a descriptive nature (92%). It was identified that nursing has in play a tool capable of computerizing and training the child, in order to place it at the center of its care, contributing to its recovery, and in the shorter hospitalization time. Discussion: The implementation of activities using objects such as dolls, hospital instruments, conversations and historical stories stimulated motor coordination and verbal communication, corroborating the understanding of the need for hospitalization and the procedures developed in the hospital environment. Conclusion: Playful activities provide information through distraction, mainly reducing the child's suffering by allowing them to express their feelings and desires through objects, this reflection of greater cooperation and adherence to treatment.