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The paper focuses on nursing care provided to a hospitalized child from the point of view of his/her parents. It is a common practice of the children’s department of the hospital to place a carer with a child younger than 6 years old to the hospital. The nurse focuses not only on the provision of nursing care to the child, but it is essential that he/she cooperates with the child’s carer, too. Objective: The aim of the paper is to evaluate the views of parents of hospitalized children on the provision of nursing care to the children. Methods: Quantitative research, questionnaire survey techniques were used to obtain the data. The Nurse Parent Support Tool (Miles, 1998) was used, focusing on 4 areas - supportive communication and provision of information related to the child, emotional support, strengthening of and supporting parental roles, and providing quality and professional nursing care to the child. The focus group consisted of parents of hospitalized children. Results: Among the parents, the best evaluated area was the provision of quality and professional nursing care to the child. The parents were the least satisfied in the area of emotional support.