Play for hospitalized children: A qualitative enquiry of behaviour and motivation of nurses in a secondary level healthcare setting in Ghana

The World Health Organization recommends that healthcare workers, specifically doctors and nurses, utilize play within treatment and care to promote recovery and overall well-being of hospitalized children. This recommendation has extended the roles of nurses in pediatric settings to include play in their routine care for children hospitalized for various childhood illnesses. Nurses need to draw on their skills to use play as an essential tool to aid communication, assessment, diagnosis, and care of the hospitalized child.
Source: Journal of Pediatric Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research