Abstract:

Introduction: When the child is in the hospital, he does not know the staff of the hospital, the materials used, the procedures to be done. This condition affects the child's adaptation to the hospital and treatment, communication with healthcare staff and subsequent hospital experiences. Purpose: The school age in the hospital was done by children in order to examine the state of detection of the hospital and nurses. Method: The study was conducted with a university hospital in the Children's Health and Diseases Service, with children aged 7-12 and 15 who were determined using the measurement sampling method. In the study, the data was collected with the 'Patient Information Form' that enables the collection of general information about the child and the family and the semi-configured 'Conversation Form' that guides the conversation, the data was coded and the topics were created. The findings: The research results have identified two themes and sub-themes, including Information and Thoughts - Hospital / Disease (Hospital, Hospital Environment, Initiatives, Information Resources, Hospital's Positive / Negative Aspects), Nurses (First Meeting, Professional Identity), Recommendations and Requirements - Hospital (Hospital Environment, Initiatives), Nurses (Professional Identity, Occupational Preference). The vast majority of the children are hospitalized without preparation, the majority of the sources of information about the hospital and nurses are television and the adults. Painful invasive attempts, poor treatment of health workers, physical disabilities and separation from the loved ones, they have described as the negative side of the hospital. All children met the nurse for the first time in the hospital environment, experienced feelings like fear, excitement, shame and curiosity against the nurse and the hospital. The nurses have an idea of their responsibilities as a professional profession, but the vast majority of them have never seen male nurses. The nurse has been defined with positive characteristics such as laughing, happy, good, related, gentle. The conclusion is that there are disadvantages in informing the children. The playroom is the desires expressed in school. The nurse who looked at them said they prefer to be a nurse and to wear colorful, modeled shapes.

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