Childhood is marked by the growth of children's development, and playing is one of
the inherent activities that effectively contributes to the development of the physical,
emotional and social aspects of these subjects. Children can go through episodes
of illness and need hospitalization, a fact that can generate trauma, since they see
themselves in a different and frightening environment, that is, a new routine, distant
from the family environment and they may be subjected to painful procedures. .
Thus, the general objective of this dissertation was to describe the process of
planning and implementing an extension project for a Higher Education Institution to
perform hospital recreation activities. The methodology used in the research was a
qualitative approach through action research, data were collected through the focus
group conducted via web conferencing due to the Coronavirus pandemic. To analyze
the collected data, Discursive Textual Analysis was used. Data collection took place
in October 2020 with 10 academics who met the inclusion criteria of the research.
As products derived from the dissertation, 3 articles were made, the first one entitled
“Nurses' performance in hospital recreation: an integrative review”, in which a state
of the art research was carried out on the theme of nursing along with hospital
recreation. The second manuscript, under the title “Conceptions of hospital leisure
and recreation: the perspective of nursing students participating in an extension
project”, we identified the concepts of leisure and hospital recreation of nursing
students who participate in this extension project, concluding that participants
associate the concept of leisure with distraction, fun, relaxation and well-being and
who perceive hospital recreation as playful activities that can be systematized and
developed as an intervention by the nursing team. In the third article, “Nurses of joy:
discussions based on the structuring of an extension project to develop hospital
recreation activities”, we present the discussions arising from the structuring of an
extension project with the objective of developing children's hospital recreation
activities that refer to importance of humanized care, hospital recreation as nursing
care and extension activities in the training of nurses. Thus, we believe that through
this dissertation it was possible to structure an extension project, highlighting the
relationship between teaching and social responsibility. In this sense, the
institutionalization of this, which can be associated with the discipline of Health Care
for Children and Neonates of the institution participating in the research, responds
to the requirements of Brazilian legislation regarding the inclusion of extension
activities in the curriculum of undergraduate courses, providing the expansion
knowledge and practice of nursing students, contributing to the permanent education
of professionals working in the hospital that will receive the project and promoting a
greater use of hospital recreation as a nursing intervention.
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