This case report describes the nursing experience of a pre-school child hospitalized with burns resulting from overturning hot soup. The nursing period from 27th August 2017 to 13th September 2017. The health problems identified by Gordon's 11-item functional health assessment were acute pain, impaired tissue integrity, and fear. To build a better relationship with the patient therapeutic play was used. Pain relief techniques were used to reduce wound pain caused by changing dressings, to provide knowledge of scald-related wound healing, and to prevent infection. An aggressive rehabilitation therapy was also given. Companionship and psychological support were an important part of this intervention used to encourage the child to express their fearful and anxious experiences during hospitalization. With timely assessment of physiological and psychological needs, appropriate child-centered nursing measures and health education guidance to improve the quality of nursing care during hospitalization, we expect sharing this experience could be of value to clinical nursing with similar patients.