title: Rescuing the pleasure of playing of child with cancer in a hospital setting.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to dimension spaces and people that act on playing of children with cancer in outpatient treatment.
  
  
  METHODS
  qualitative research developed with the creative sensitive method. A total of twenty two family members of seven children with cancer in outpatient treatment at a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro participated of this research. Data were generated in the family members' homes, from September 2011 to May 2012.
  
  
  RESULTS
  after the diagnosis of childhood cancer, there was a change of scene and in the people who interact and play with children. Hospital has a central place for it, since children discover the pleasure of playing in this setting.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the health care professional, especially nurses, who work on hospital care needs, should develop the ability of facilitate playing and therefore, enable care that promotes childhood development.
authors: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BR.
authors: Liliane Faria
authors: LF
authors: da Silva
authors: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BR.
authors: Ivone Evangelista
authors: IE
authors: Cabral
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D002648:Child; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D010989:Play Therapy; D057181:Pleasure