The purpose is the mediated reading to hospitalized child as "ludic" strategy. The objectives are: Identify the meanings of reading mediation actions attributed by the subjects; characterize their contributions to hospitalized children, and discuss the mediated reading as expressive / "ludic" strategy of basic care. It is a descriptive and qualitative study conducted with 10 hospitalized children and their 10 escorts; 07 reading mediators, and 10 nursing team's members. The benefits of reading were evidenced on children and their escort's well-being which promote the health team's work. For the professionals and mediators, the mediated reading is a humanization care strategy that reduce psychic surcharge and provides emotional comfort to the children, softening their suffering. It concluded that combining "ludism" and care is in line with the principles of the theory of human care and also the project called Humaniza SUS, whose host strategies of customer are valued.
Nursing care; Child health; Humanization of Assistance