La Alegría, el miedo y la aversión de los niños o niñas internados en el Hospital Homero Castanier Crespo de la ciudad de Azogues

Abstract

Contents: the health system in Ecuador; theoretical framework; research methodology; results; conclusions; recomendaciones.Conclusiones: about the joy, this feeling is expressed and demonstrated when hospitalized children stay with their mother, because she is a key to managing the child and helps in quick recovery of the patient element. Joy is also observed when children have a place of relaxation, where they can vent their tensions, fears and fears, forgetting that they are placed in a different place to which they are accustomed. In addition, the joy in children occurs when there is a colleague or partner hospital, long as they pass at least 3. Expressions of joy are presented with smiles, laughter, hugs, games, watching TV, running in the halls, tease health personnel; the latter was found to be more common when the child has spent several days in the hospital because he has gradually gained confidence in the doctor or nurse. Fear is the feeling that more raw in almost all hospitalized children, they are afraid to come to the hospital, knowing that there are going to be subjected to medical procedures and trauma nursing; within these procedures, the most common are: channeling vein for administering medications, drawing blood, painful palpation maneuvers for pediatric patients, wound healing without local or general anesthesia. The fear is reflected in children particularly with crying, verbal expressions of rejection, he sticks to parents and clings to them. It has been observed that as the days go hospitalization of a child, the intensity level of fear diminishes, due to the trust that is being created in the pediatric patient-physician relationship; and therefore it becomes less traumatic and difficult the stay of the patient in the ward. As regards the aversion, this feeling shared several common shares with fear, such as physical attacks, displaced, verbal and observations made. It is very common aversion to food by children, they report that hospital food is very bland, tasteless. Expressed aversion kicking, flight, travel, nose puckering