title: [Emergent functions in paediatric nursing: control of symbolic environmental mediators in child hospitalisation].
abstract: In the work which methods and results we shall later describe, we have tried to indicate which symbolic environmental mediators appear most frequently in the contexts of child hospitalisation. By symbolic environmental mediators, we understand the stimulus signals of the environment, associated, by virtue of personal or vicarious experiences, to certain emotional experiences--this is, signals capable of affecting the patients' emotional experience. From our work it follows that there exists a wide margin of improvement of these aspects in the current settings of child hospitalization, and that it is the paediatric nursing professionals who, in an emergent way, are assuming functions of control of the symbolic environmental mediators in the mentioned processes of hospitalisation.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Salamanca. ullan@usal.es
authors.forename: Ana Maria
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Ullán de la Fuente
authors.forename: Salomé
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gándara Gavilanes
authors.forename: Esperanza
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fernández de Alba
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002673:Child, Hospitalized / Q000523:psychology*; D004777:Environment; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D013561:Symbolism