Participation of the nurse in the adaptation of the child to hospital conditions

Introduce the part nurse is playing which in the adaptation of the child to hospital conditions.

Systematic review of the medical writing in the aspect of peculiar problems resulting from the hospitalization of children.

The hospitalization is depriving the child of his habitat, he is separating him with the family, he is making the current energetic attitude to life
impossible and he is forcing into obeying the top-down imposed hospital regime reducing his freedom in consequence and getting the
sense of security back from him. The physical and mental state of the child at the hospital depends on many determinants, as even if from
psychosocial relationships with the staff. The child is sensing whether the staff likes him, whether he understands his problems and needs, he is showing the patience, interest, correctly is communicating with him (humanistic approach which is supporting the adjustment of the child
to hospital conditions) whether is also concentrated exclusively on his illness (biological approach).

Children and young people during the hospitalization should have an opportunity to express survived emotions (conversation, saying its
anxieties, games, contact with peers). Nurses should care for satisfying needs of psychosocial children at pediatric wards. Direction of influences of nurses enabling the adaptation of the child to conditions of the hospital should take the age of the child into account, level of development psychophysical, the current state of health, the level of the function of the organism and his individual needs.