THE ROLE OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORK OF THE MEDICAL NURSE IN PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF CHILDREN WITH BRONCHIAL ASTHMA
The tasks assigned to a nurse make her profession multifaceted and technologically challenging. The development of a child in conditions of severe somatic pathology can not but affect the formation of his personality, the peculiarities of relationships with parents, peers, learning activities and adaptation possibilities in general. In studies of children of primary school age, personality traits are not sufficiently taken into account in the formation of the pathological psychosomatic functional system. In the sources available to us there is no indication of the relationship between the age of the sick child and his internal picture of the disease, protection from an unfavorable psychological environment, the way of perception of the disease and other features. Psychological factors affecting the occurrence and course of somatic diseases in children, compared with adult age, have a slightly different hierarchical organization, other relative weights. In addition, there are problems associated with schooling, with upbringing in the family, with the specifics of the somatogenic and psychogenic influence of the disease on the psyche of the child, with his placement in the hospital, separation from parents. Personality is formed in the changed conditions – the conditions of the disease. The child also has a smaller repertoire of possible ways of coping with the disease. An important factor in determining the internal picture of the disease is age. Peculiar and the relationship of the child and others, undergoing changes due to illness. The article also describes work with parents of children suffering from bronchial asthma. In this article, we examined the disease of children with bronchial asthma, their features. We also looked at how medical personnel can help cope with the psychological barriers that patients have with this disease.