Profese Online, 2008 (vol. 1), issue 1

Articles

THE INCIDENCE OF AGGRESSION IN HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS

Michaela Szkanderová, Darja Jarošová

Profese online 2008, 1(1):1-9 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2008.001  

The paper shows the outcomes of an interview inquiry of aggression in healthcare facilities, which was implemented in the Faculty Hospital of Ostrava and Třinec Hospital in 202 nurses from selected departments. The aim of the study was to find out the incidence of verbal and physical aggression directed at nurses, to define the most common aggressor, to discover if nurses are able to defend themselves against the aggression adequately, if and what kind of information of aggression in health facilities they have.

ATTITUDES OF NURSES AND STUDENTS OF NURSING TOWARDS THE PROBLEMS OF ABORTION

Juraj Čáp, Jana Magerová

Profese online 2008, 1(1):10-22 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2008.002  

The authors set to identify and compare opinions and attitudes of work experienced nursies and students of nursing careh on abortion issues. They used unusual way to collate the relevant information which has a project characteristic. The results of the research show that there is statistically significant difference between opinions of approached nurses and students. The nurses were expressing medium positive attitude and in some cases were close to all positive attitude towards this issue. The students took neutral view towards the issue of abortion and in some cases the opinion was between I cannot review a situation and more agree than disagree...

The importance of nitric oxide for management nursing care about patients with respiratory and cardiovascular diseases

Martina Antošová

Profese online 2008, 1(1):23-32 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2008.003  

The nitric oxide (NO) is a small messenger molecule that participates in various physiological and pathological processes in human organisms. The interest about understanding specific effects of nitric oxide in separate organisms systems was in the last years increased analogous to interest about the best exploitation of nitric oxide diagnostics and therapeutic effects. Nitric oxide is given in centre of interests in several sciences, including nursing. The aim of presenting work is supplied the basic information about this mediator (synthesis, effects) and about possibilities of NO using in diagnostic and therapeutic process (exhaled nitric oxide...

RELATION OF DEPRESSION TO HOPE AND HOPELESSNESS

Ivan Farský, Katarína Žiaková, Igor Ondrejka

Profese online 2008, 1(1):33-44 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2008.004  

The article is focused on the hope and hopelessness of patients suffering from depression. The hope has a positive influence on health and well-being and is one part of one´s spirituality dimension. On the contrary hopelessness is frequently occurred as a symptom of depression and it has a negative influence on treatment and psychosocial rehabilitation of patients. Hopelessness leads to increased suicidal risk. We found out relative high proportion of patients with low hope and with hopelessness in spite of antidepressive treatment of these patients. Significant differences in level of hope were depending on marital status and denomination.

COPING WITH BURDENING SITUATIONS IN DIALYZED PATIENTS

Elena Gurková, Andrea Michnáčová

Profese online 2008, 1(1):45-55 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2008.005  

Ineffective coping is a nursing diagnosis of the NANDA International classification system. Diagnostic phase of this problem focused on ineffective coping strategies identification in relation to changes in health status. The aim of this work was to identify coping strategies witch are used by patients on haemodialysis. Authors of this work aimed to determine the significant differences in coping strategies in relation to age, gender and length of therapy. In order to classify coping strategies authors used a standardized questionnaire called Brief COPE by Carver. (1997) They found out on the sample size of 45 respondents, that the most commonly used...