Profese Online, 2011 (vol. 4), issue 1

Articles

UNSUITABLE TREATMENT WITH THE ELDERLY FROM FAMILY RELATIONS IN THE NURSING HOMES

Kateřina Ivanová, Radka Bužgová, Ivana Olecká, Darja Jarošová

Profese online 2011, 4(1):1-5 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2011.001  

Aim: On the basic theoretical and references framework of sociology of family submitted research study was to find out the experience of direct care staff with unsuitable treatment with the elderly from their family relations. The study is one of the partial aids of an extensive research that is aimed at elderly abuse in institutional setting.Background: Placing an elderly person into an institutional care is an intervention into family life as a whole. Though this situation can be very painful by many families there can be found cases where an unsuitable treatment of the elderly can be detected not only during the care in the family but also after...

Management of central venous catheter

Ľubomíra Ježová, Katarína Žiaková

Profese online 2011, 4(1):6-10 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2011.002  

Implementation of central venous catheterization system to the clinical practice represents considerable progress and benefit for the patient. On the other side central venous catheter is invasive method connected with skin tissue impairment direct entrance to central venous system with technical risks, infection and thrombosis complications.Aim: The aim of our study was find out differences between the national standards No. 48, 49 created by Ministry of health of Slovak Republic and the local standards, which are using in Intensive care Unit of Transplant and vascular surgery Clinic of Faculty Hospital in Martin. And also to identify the most...

The nurses' motivation to the qualification's improvement

Alena Lasovská, Jaroslava Králová

Profese online 2011, 4(1):11-15 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2011.003  

The report presents the outcomes of the survey which dealed with nurses' motivation to the qualification's improvement. This survey was realized among 291 nurses working in the teaching hospital in Ostrava.Aim: The aim of the article was to find out the motivation factors that influence the decision making process of the nurses to continue their education and that was done on the basis of the importance of these factors for them and satisfaction with the factors. Methods: The theoretical resource for the research was Maslow's pyramid of needs and Herzberg's motivation theory. Pre-research was realised with the help of half-structured interwiev....

Impaired swallowing: a neglected nursing diagnosis?

Petra Mandysová, Edvard Ehler, Jana Škvrňáková

Profese online 2011, 4(1):16-20 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2011.004  

The article focuses on the issue of identifying the nursing diagnosis "impaired swallowing". The aim of the article is to highlight the issue of swallowing disorders and to provide information about the importance of screening and about screening options that could facilitate dysphagia identification. At the same time, this type of assessment could become part of a systematic approach to patient care and it could support multidisciplinary collaboration. The mentioned screening methods were identified using three professional databases (EBSCOhost, ProQuest, Journals@Ovid). The analysis of these methods focused on the content of the method, the manner...

Nurses' attitudes toward care of the dying in relation to the duration of nursing practice

Jana Slováková, Miroslava Trpišová

Profese online 2011, 4(1):21-24 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2011.005  

Aim: In our research we were interested to examine nurses attitudes toward care of the dying. We wanted to find out what attitudes toward care of the dying have nurses with different number of years in nursing practice and also to examine significant differences of attitudes between these groups of nurses.Methods: We used as research instrument "Frommelt's Attitude toward Care of the Dying" in our research. Results: On the basis of analyzing the data, we found that in the whole sample of nurses were the most represented positive attitudes toward care of the dying. Statistically significant differences were seen between groups of nurses who have...

The nutritional usages of the students of the health science branches in Brno

Jana Straková, Marta Šenkyříková, Petra Juřeníková

Profese online 2011, 4(1):25-28 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2011.006  

Aims: The main goal of pilot study (background prospective nationwide study) was realize quantitative as well as quantitative monitoring of the nutrition customs by adult population. As partial goals has been established two goals: to compare selected parameters with long - range The European study HELENA and to define if the food selection by paramedical students is influenced according to professional pieces of knowledge about principles healthy nutrition and its different toward to laic adolescent population at Czech Republic.Methods: The quantitative data collection was realized by method of an authors questionnaire (35 items), set of 131 respondents...

Burden assessment and quality of life of family in palliative care

Radka Šerfelová

Profese online 2011, 4(1):29-32 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2011.007  

Aim: Author concerns in work assessment burden and quality of life of family in providing care to dying relative. Methods: For research author used standardized questionnaires Caregiver Strain Index (Robinson, 1983, ¬p. ¬343-348), Caregiver Quality of Life Index - Cancer (Weitzner & McMillan, 1999, p. 55-63) and FAMCARE (Kristjanson et al, 1993, p. 693-701). This research included the sample size of 100 respondents, who provide palliative care.Results: Following analyses receives entry author found out, significant statistical differences of the gender of the caregiver, in physiologic and emotional aspects. We didn't find significant...

The CAM method for assessment of acute confusion

Gabriela Vörösová

Profese online 2011, 4(1):33-37 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2011.008  

Aim: To identify acute confusion by nurses in the conditions of the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic. To find the differences between the chosen groups of patients by gender, age, medical diagnoses and days of duration of acute confusion.Methods: We used the Slovak version of the CAM (Confusion Assessment Method) scale. The Student's t-test and the Pearson correlation were used to evaluate the data.Results: The significant differences were found in the age groups, medical diagnoses and duration of acute confusion. No differences were found between the genders.Conclusion: We recommend the CAM scale to be used in the clinical conditions...