This study focused the case of a child admitted to hospital in an Intensive Therapy Paediatrics Unit, to identify factors that interfere on his sleep and rest. We used as method for data collection the participant observation, over the procedures done and the way of the child care in the multiprofessional team. The results denote that sleep and rest were interrupted in 25 minutes intervals, showing the need and the deprive of the sleep under those circumstances. We concluded that the assistance of children who needs intensive care must be looking for their individual necessities using for that an humanistic approach which implies in joints formation, professional interdisciplinarity, searching the wholeheartedly, the unit and interdependence.
Pediatric Nursing; Intensive Care; Sleep; Rest
