Bouchard France, Landry Marie, Belles-Isles Marthe, Gagnon Johanne
CHUQ (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec).
Can Oncol Nurs J. 2004 Winter;14(1):14-7. doi: 10.5737/1181912x1411417.
For children with cancer, being hospitalized represents a great source of stress. Hospitalized children are not only deprived of their familiar and comforting world, but they must also face various and often painful treatments. They must quickly adapt to new people and to an environment that is very different from that of their homes. They have greater safety needs. Thus, it is important to offer these children concrete ways to better adapt to the stresses of hospitalization. Animal-assisted therapy, considered within this project as a novel approach to care, constitutes an interesting solution. It involves using the privileged relation between children and animals to foster the process of adaptation to illness and the hospital environment. The experience described in this article is a one-year pilot project completed on a pediatric oncology unit. A priori, an already very heavy workload, the vulnerability of the patients, and many constraints added to the concerns related to the presence of animals on a tertiary care unit. A postiori, the rigorous design and implementation process of the pilot project, the strong involvement and engagement of volunteers and professionals, the quality of the participating "therapeutic" dogs, the originality of the entire process, and the satisfaction of the patients and nursing staff contributed to its success and to establishing the basis for a permanent implementation of this special care program for children hospitalized with cancer.
对于患有癌症的儿童来说，住院是巨大的压力来源。住院儿童不仅被剥夺了他们熟悉且舒适的世界，还必须面对各种各样且往往很痛苦的治疗。他们必须迅速适应新的人和与家截然不同的环境。他们有更高的安全需求。因此，为这些儿童提供具体方法以更好地适应住院压力非常重要。动物辅助疗法在本项目中被视为一种新颖的护理方法，是一个有趣的解决方案。它利用儿童与动物之间的特殊关系来促进适应疾病和医院环境的过程。本文所述的经历是在一个儿科肿瘤病房完成的为期一年的试点项目。从先验角度看，工作量本就很大，患者脆弱，而且在三级护理病房引入动物还增加了许多限制因素。从后验角度看，试点项目严谨的设计和实施过程、志愿者和专业人员的积极参与、参与的“治疗”犬的质量、整个过程的独特性以及患者和护理人员的满意度促成了项目的成功，并为永久实施这一针对癌症住院儿童的特殊护理项目奠定了基础。
