Editorial

Miroslav Kopecký, Šárka Rýznarová

Profese online 2016, 9(1):i

I know that I know: A certainty based marking tests designed for evaluating knowledge of healthcare students

Vít Blanař, Jan Pospíchal

Profese online 2016, 9(1):1-8 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2016.001  

Background: The presented method of evaluating computer tests is based on the requisite to reduce the risk of guessing the correct answers while testing a large number of Healthcare students. The system guides students to realize their own mistakes and deducts points for their mistakes made unconsciously. Aim: To compare the suitability of a method dealing with the certainty based marking tests in contrast to the tests without correction of guessing the correct answers while marking the knowledge of students of health studies. Methods: 150 students undertook a test evaluating their level of knowledge from anatomy which is taken on regular basis. This...

Conformity among Czech and American adolescents

Simona Dobešová Cakirpaloglu, Michaela Pečtová, Šárka Vévodová

Profese online 2016, 9(1):9-16 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2016.002  

Background: Conformity is generally defined as an individual way to adapt to the pressure of the referent group. The common characteristic of the different conceptions of conformity is that to this process precedes a conflict among the inner strengths of the personality who induce the individual to act according his own opinion and the strengths of the group who force the person to act according to the expectation of the group. There are two main reasons which produce conform behaviour. Those are informative and normative influences. The informative influence indicates the people give in the group pressure because of the belief of the truth of the...

Positive allergic history as a determinant the introduction of potentially allergenic foods into the diet of infants

Slávka Mrosková, Anna Eliašová, Dagmar Magurová

Profese online 2016, 9(1):17-22 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2016.003  

Background: In 2008, several international associations presented the new nutritional recommendations for the prevention of allergic diseases. The changes in the recommendations are concerned the length of breastfeeding, the age of the integration of first weaning food and the introduction of potentially allergenic foods into the infant diet. Aim: The goal of the research was to assess the effect of family history of allergy to introduce first weaning food and potentially allergenic foods into the infant diet. Methods: In the period October 2011 to April 2012, we performed the cross-sectional study in 405 Slovak mothers. The children of the respondents...

Study of the design, validation and evaluation of nursing audit tool in perioperative care

Petra Pavlová, Jana Holá

Profese online 2016, 9(1):23-30 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2016.004  

Background: It is expected that health care will be provided at the highest quality. To achieve a high level of quality in nursing perioperative care is necessary the continuous monitoring, measurement and subsequent evaluation of quality indicators. Perioperative care is defined as care for a patient before, during and immediately after the end of the operation. An audit is appropriate instrument for the monitoring of quality of care. Audits inspect the status of the established processes and lead to the prevention of risks. The quality of perioperative care focuses on the safety and health protection as patients so staffs of operating theatres. Aim:...

Validation of diagnostic elements of nursing diagnosis 00104 Ineffective breastfeeding

Lenka Witová, Martin Procházka, Petra Pičmanová, Štěpánka Bubeníková

Profese online 2016, 9(1):31-37 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2016.005  

Background: The aim of the validation studies is to verify the validity of nursing diagnoses of NANDA-I classification in different conditions than in which they were created. Nursing diagnosis 00104 Ineffective breastfeeding was selected by a research team due to the importance of breastfeeding for both mother and child. Elimination of the initial problems in first days can contribute to successful lactation. Aim: The main objective of the research was validation of diagnostic elements of nursing diagnosis 00104 Ineffective breastfeeding. Methods: The model of clinical diagnostic validity was used, in which two experts tested the presence or absence...