The work of chronically ill children on a hospital unit.
A nurse watches chronically ill children at work on a hospital unit. Food procurement work, body work, composure work, work during an IV procedure, resisting work, personal relations work, sick role work, and information work are among the extensive kinds of work children are observed carrying out. However, the child's work is seldom recognized or valued. Nurses need to evaluate how their own work facilitates or impedes the work of the child.
D002648:Child; D002673:Child, Hospitalized / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D014937:Work