Objective: to understand the existential experience of children undergoing chemotherapy on the importance of playing. Methods: qualitative research performed in the outpatient clinic of a teaching hospital with five children undergoing chemotherapy. Data were collected through the interviews and analyzed in the light of the Humanistic Nursing Theory. Results: the discourses revealed the children’s understanding...
The Family Health Program (FHP), is a proposal that aims to guide and organize the public system, assuring the construction of an assistance model that gives priority to all citizens. The nurse, as a member in this program plays an important role, developing actions that are common to the role team as well as, some other specifics actions such as nurse consultation, request of complementary tests and medicine p...
the play influences the child development encouraging her to apprehend behaviors, knowledge building on her own reality besides express her feelings and emotions. Considering that the child with cancer has organic and psychological changes, the prank is an instrument to reduce child’s anxiety about unknown and permits her a possibility to show her authenticity. The present study initiated by the following quest...