Nursing Intervention for Hospitalization - Play Therapy

The focus of nursing interventions:

• Minimize stressors
• Maximize the benefits of hospitalization provide psychological support to family members
• Prepare the child before entering the hospital

1. Efforts to minimize stressors can be done by:

• Prevent or reduce the impact of separation
• Prevent feelings of loss of control
• Reduce / minimize the fear of injury and body pain

2. Efforts to prevent / minimize the impact of separation

• Involving parents take an active role in childcare
• Modification of the treatment room
• Maintain contact with school activities: correspondence, meeting classmates

3. Prevent feelings of loss of control:

• Avoid physical restrictions if the child can be cooperative.
• When children do modifications isolated environment
• Create a schedule for the therapeutic procedure, exercise, play
• Giving children the opportunity to make decisions and involve parents in planning activities.

4. Minimizing the fear of bodily injury and pain

• Prepare psychologically for children and parents to act procedures that cause pain.
• Make the game before the child's physical preparation.
• Bringing parents whenever possible.
• Show empathy.
• In elective action whenever possible actions performed by telling stories, pictures. Need to do a psychological assessment of the child's ability to receive this information openly.

5. Maximizing the benefits of child hospitalization

• Help the development of children by giving parents the opportunity to learn.
• Provide opportunities for parents to learn about the child's illness.
• Improving the ability of self-control.
• Provide opportunities for socialization.
• Giving support to family members.

6. Preparing children for treatment in hospital

• Prepare the treatment room according to the stage of the child's age.
• Orient the hospital situation.

On the first day you should take:

• Introduce nurses and doctors
• Introduce the patient to another.
• Give the identity of the child.
• Explain the rules of the hospital.
• Implement assessment
• Perform a physical examination

Play Therapy

Definition of play

• Natural way for children to express the conflict within him unconscious.
• Activities carried out in accordance with his own wishes to obtain pleasure.

Play is an activity

• fun / enjoyable
• physical
• intellectual
• emotion
• social
• to learn
• mental development
• play and work

Purpose of playing in the hospital

• To be able to resume normal growth and development during hospitalization.
• To express their thoughts and feelings and fantasies through the game.

Principles of play in hospital

• does not require a lot of energy
• time is short
• easy to do
• safe
• age group
• not opposed to therapy
• involving the family

Function plays

• sensory motor activity
• cognitive development
• socialization
• creativity
• therapeutically moral development
• communication