Abstract
Giving meaning to the teaching of Therapeutic Play: the experience of nursing students
Highlights
The National Curricular Guidelines for the Undergraduate Course in Nursing define that the nurse's training aims to endow the professional with the knowledge required for exercising competencies and skills which include healthcare, decision-making, leadership, administration and management, continuing education and efficient communication
Our results allowed us to understand the meaning attributed by the nursing student to the teaching of Therapeutic Play (TP) on the undergraduate program - it is a necessary and important intervention to promote quality and humane nursing care; its teaching must be ensured for undergraduate students
[...] God, I don't remember the class on therapeutic play, I think it took place in a class among all the topics which we had to have addressed before going into the field, I think that the class on TP was worth including [...] (A4)
Summary
The National Curricular Guidelines for the Undergraduate Course in Nursing define that the nurse's training aims to endow the professional with the knowledge required for exercising competencies and skills which include healthcare, decision-making, leadership, administration and management, continuing education and efficient communication. This last imposes upon the professionals the duty to be accessible and to keep information reliable; and involves verbal and nonverbal communication, and skills in reading and writing.[1] it is necessary to rethink the teaching of communication in Pediatric Nursing. There is evidence that children continue not to be included in the conversations established between the professionals and the family members regarding their health, above all for children below 10 years of age, there being a lack of investment in the professionals' communication with these which emphasizes the need for health professionals to learn how to communicate with these children appropriately, informing them about disease and responding to their doubts.[4,5]
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