Although the playfultherapy has therapeutic value in the hospitalization and need to be incorporate in the process of taking care in Pediatric Nursing, her use is not effective in the Brazilian institutions. Being like this, it is aimed to apprehend from the academics of Nursing doing playful practices with children hospitalized during the professional studies. Methodologically was adopted the approach qualitative phenomenological, with sample of 16 academics of the eighth period of the Nursing Course at the Universidade Federal de Alfenas, after Free Consent and Clarification. It was used open interviews with the subject oriented: How are the playful activities applied in the daily of work in Pediatric Unit? The results are evidenced by the categories motivation/gratification, lack of pledge and initiative, and impotence. Consequently, it was considered that the insert of the playful in pediatrics is a gradual process, and that doing playful practices implicates in reviewing the academic studies, turning the articulation strong and coherent teaching/research/extension, for the contents to emphasize the humanization and the assistance integralization.
Pediatrics; Hospitalization; Nursing Care