title: OC34 - Paediatric rehabilitation: humanizing nursing care to children and their families.
abstract: Theme: Ethical issues - dignity and humanity.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The child with special health care needs in a rehabilitation center for their vulnerable condition requires a clinical practice centered on ethics and humanization.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To know the parents' and nurses opinions on humanized care in a paediatric rehabilitation unit and to identify needs and strategies that promote the humanization of care in a paediatric rehabilitation unit.
  
  
  METHODS
  Qualitative, descriptive, exploratory study, using interviews with nurses and questionnaires to parents of hospitalized children.
  
  
  RESULTS
  This study enhances the importance that nurses should have in human relationships, with special attention to each child and their parents, but also to the structural and functioning conditions of the unit.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results are in agreement with the literature, highlighting the particular aspects of children with special needs and their parents.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results contribute to more humanized care and could be a basis for a Charter of Humanization.
authors.affiliation: Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto - Nursing School of Porto, Portugal.
authors.forename: Ana Paula Marques
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: França
authors.affiliation: Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto - Nursing School of Porto, Portugal.
authors.forename: Alda Rosa Barbosa
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Mendes
authors.affiliation: Centro de Reabilitação do Norte, Portugal.
authors.forename: Mariana Inês Fernandes
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Barrias
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology; D028723:Personhood; D036301:Qualitative Research; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers / Q000458:organization & administration; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Ethics; humanization; nursing care; paediatric nursing.; paediatric rehabilitation