Hospital Education

Educational care of the sick child must be an integral part of medical treatment program and be a shared task of parents, teachers and health workers.

Hospital education is a task shared by parents, teachers and doctors and it has established good communication between family, school and hospital. This communication begins at the time of diagnosis and for those children who have cognitive sequelae following treatment will continue until the end of their schooling. The sooner you enter the sick child to school before your balance and self-esteem recover lost as a result of emotional trauma caused by the disease.

It should be close coordination between:

- The role of the hospital: A comprehensive treatment program includes educational intervention, led by a trained professional with experience in education (the hospital school teacher) who will join the management team. This person serves as liaison between the family, the hospital and the educational community with a deep knowledge of curriculum, the educational system, and special education programs (developed in the mainstream classroom or classroom support) will also work with the teacher in curriculum development and the development of relevant curricular adaptations, and the child in the hospital classroom. The relationship with the medical staff will mainly be of an informative, since it is through them as we learn of new entrants as well as those who have been discharged. Similarly, pick through them all the information about the status of the new student, if appropriate assistance to the classroom or on the contrary, it is more convenient to attend him in his room.

Advise on technical aspects of the child's illness and in their physical and health advise and inform the school care about the possibilities of activity and student performance.

- Doctors, teachers must provide specific information concerning the status of each child are to assess how chemotherapy will affect the child's attendance at school and properly plan the child's absences to it. Each case will be assessed in collaboration with the school in accordance with the development of treatments.

The communication of medical and hospital teachers with teachers of the school of origin of the sick child can:

- Provide an updated medical information for teachers to change their ideas, attitudes, myths and misconceptions .- To be an avenue for teachers to analyze their own feelings and experiences about the disease and do not interfere with the child's schooling .- Give information on the development of the disease and its treatment on the social, physical, academic and emotional diagnosis and treatment, the necessary support in the preparation of the companions to return to class the sick child, and how to make appropriate curricular adaptations.

- The role of parents: The families of hospitalized children, involving them in the process of recovery from his illness and educational processes in relationship with parents we aimed in several directions:

- As a link between the center of origin and the hospital classroom. - Guidance on the level of their children, from the standpoint of emotional, academic and health. - Participate in activities both recreational and timely information, organized in the classroom.

They may be the most stable element in the process of communication with the school, and we need to have an accurate understanding of your child's condition should be supported by professionals to assume responsibility for the education and treatment of it.

Educators should respect cultural differences of families and at the same time, do everything possible for parents to give a satisfactory answer to the needs of their children.

A very important tool for channeling the concerns and actions of parents in education are the Parents' Associations. All these associations are concerned about the education of their children and some women develop very active in this regard, publishing brochures for parents and teachers and developing programs and curriculum materials for classrooms and schools hospital.

- The role of teachers: Once you have relevant information, are free to organize support, curricular adaptations do get sick child's acceptance by peers, based on a careful assessment of the effects of the disease and of treatments on cognitive and academic functioning of children. They make back to school program, whose objectives are to involve the entire school community in this program, prepare the group class to accept and understand the new status of your partner, give the child strategies for action against the group and set curricular adaptations appropriate to their educational needs.

Because children are suffering the consequences of the disease should be integrated into the therapeutic process and actively participate in decisions about their school life. Responedr should be prepared to questions from their classmates, and teenagers, especially, have to express their views on how information is given to teachers and peers. develop strategies to overcome their fear of return to school.

- The hospital classrooms: While the child is hospitalized, and once your physical condition allows, it will be convenient to start the school work in the hospital classroom. These classes exist in most hospitals and their goal is to continue, as far as possible the educational process of each student hospitalized. This requires collaboration with the centers. The objectives of the hospital wards are:

- Encourage the child's overall development in all its aspects. - Avoid the marginalization of the hospitalized child's educational process and alleviate the hospital syndrome by continuing school activities .. - Avoid social isolation can not attend the school and possible relationship processes and socialization of children hospitalized with others who are in the same situation as him. - Compensating or rehabilitating any deficiencies (neurological sequelae). - Develop educational programs in collaboration with the school. - Relax and reduce stress through leisure activities recretativas. - Distract and encourage the child. - Facilitate the integration of school after the long period of absence from school.