THE NURSE'S PERCEPTION OF PLAYING AND THE IMPACT OF THESE PRACTICES IN PEDIATRIC ASSISTANCE

The data collection was done after approval of the Research Ethics Committee, through a semistructured interview, during the period from May to August 2017. Nonetheless, it is necessary for them to know the benefits of this method and to continue building intuitive knowledge, based on daily life, to another conceptual level, in which the nursing care systematization, the incorporation of study results and, even reflections on the child's uniqueness and the context in which childcare takes place are considered.1 The hospitalization process means for the child a different moment from all the ones already experienced. Considering the abovementioned, the complexity of caring is established, since the action implies not only in curing the disease, but also in the restoration and preservation of the client's physical and emotional integrity, thus reducing the negative impacts to the patients. which are exposed during hospitalization.5 Hence, this study meant to know the nurses' viewpoint on playing and its impact towards pediatric care, identifying the benefits and the main difficulties in carrying out such activity. METHODS It is a descriptive-exploratory research with a qualitative approach, which provides better familiarity with the problem, making it more explicit and enabling the construction of hypothesis and qualitative approach, as it is based on the premise that knowledge about people is only possible from the description of human experience as it is lived and as defined by its own actors.6,7 The research scenario was a public institution, located in Teresina city, Piauí State, which provides childcare to children, being a referral center for the local population and other surrounding municipalities.