Nursing perspectives, 2022 (vol. 5), issue 1

Editorial

Marcela Murasová

Ošetřovatelské perspektivy 2022, 5(1)  

DEMENTIA – HISTORY AND CURRENCIES

Zdeňka Římovská, Hana Heiderová

Ošetřovatelské perspektivy 2022, 5(1):89-101 | DOI: 10.25142/osp.2022.001  

Introduction: The IHIS statistics for 2019 confirm 102,000 patients with dementia in the Czech Republic. There are 582 people with this disease per 100,000 inhabitants, which is 0.6  % of the population. The article maps the development of dementia to the present.             Aims: The aim of the publication is to provide an overview of the development and current state of dementia in the Czech Republic and abroad. To get acquainted with this disease, to point out dementia as a societal problem, and to appeal to its solution.Methods: For data collection, the analysis of documents I domestic and classic search and foreign databases and using...

PALIATIVE CARE ABOUT PATIENT WITH CARDIOLOGICAL DISEASE

Mária Novysedláková, Katarína Zrubáková, Mária Lehotská

Ošetřovatelské perspektivy 2022, 5(1):103-115 | DOI: 10.25142/osp.2022.005  

Introduction: The modern medicine is making a major progress in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. There current hospitalizations, deteriorating functional conditions and refractory symptoms, occuring even though optimal therapies were provided, belong to the most significant predictors suggesting that patients with advanced heart failure are aproaching the end of their lives.Aim: The aim of the paper was on the basis of an rewiev studies to point out to the bene- fits of palliative care in patients with chronic heart failure.Methods: Thepaper has a character of a review study with the aim to interpret the pu- blished...

PUBLIC HEALTH PROTECTION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Mária Šupínová, Pavel Bartošík

Ošetřovatelské perspektivy 2022, 5(1):117-126 | DOI: 10.25142/osp.2022.008  

The world has experienced a COVID-19 pandemic in the last two years 2020–2021. It is associated with massive morbidity and mortality and radical measures to eliminate them. Different countries implement several preventive measures with different intensi- ties and different outcomes. Most often it is a strategy of restricting movement, social distance, wearing face masks and a ban on meeting in large groups. The last of the me- asures in place was vaccination.Aim: The aim of the article is to verify, through literary sources, the evaluation of the ef- fectiveness of specific measures taken to protect public health during the COVID-19...

METHODOLOGY OF A GROUP ANTIGENIC SCREENING FOR SARS-COV-2

Iveta Bryjová, Radka Stonišová, Daniela Nedvědová

Ošetřovatelské perspektivy 2022, 5(1):13-25 | DOI: 10.25142/osp.2022.002  

Background: This paper is based  on  one  of  the  algorithms  of  collective  testing, the method of group screening, which we experimentally verify during mandatory screening using POC antigen tests in connection with the spread of COVID-19.Aim: To verify the model and make recommendations for collective testing for qualitative determination of SARS-CoV-2 antigen detection by POC antigen tests in the context of  population-wide screening.Methods: POC antigen test kits for the qualitative detection of SARS-CoV-2 viral nucleoprotein antigens from  direct  nasal,  nasopharyngeal,  or  oropharyngeal  swabs in a selected population using recommended...

PARENTS' AWARENESS OF SAFE PHARMACOTHERAPY IN CHILDREN

Gabriela Světnická, Daniela Nedvědová

Ošetřovatelské perspektivy 2022, 5(1):27-35 | DOI: 10.25142/osp.2021.015  

Objective: The objective of the work was to find out parents' awareness of safe pharmacotherapy in children.Methodology: A quantitative survey with a non-standardized questionnaire was used   to process the work. The research group consisted of parents.Results: Knowledge questions showed that parents have a good knowledge of drug dosing, the importance of drug administration time, including antibiotic treatment, excellent results were in the knowledge of antipyretic  drug  group  and  the  time  interval between doses, but immediately in another question, which also concerned the combination of antipyretics and the time interval,...

MOTIVATING AND DEMOTIVATING FACTORS IN THE NURSING PROFESSION DURINGTHE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Mariana Magerčiaková

Ošetřovatelské perspektivy 2022, 5(1):37-51 | DOI: 10.25142/osp.2022.010  

Background: The shortage of nurses is one of the significant problems of the health care system in Slovakia. Motivating and demotivating factors are the key to the performance of the nursing profession, especially during an emergency situation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, which determined all areas of life.Aim: To identify the most common motivating and demotivating factors for the nursing profession during the COVID-19  pandemic.Methods: A self-designed questionnaire focusing on motivating and demotivating factors was used for quantitative research. The group consisted of 888 nurses from hospitals in the Slovak Republic.

DENTAL HYGIENE IN MENTALLY DISABLED PATIENTS

Daniela Mošová

Ošetřovatelské perspektivy 2022, 5(1):55-63 | DOI: 10.25142/osp.2022.007  

Tooth decay is generally perceived as a multifactorial infectious disease. Its formation is conditioned by the presence of dental plaque and poor dental hygiene. In the case of disabled patients of any age, the main responsibility in home or institutional care in the field of dental care is transferred to the parents or caregivers of the handicapped. This nursing background is a major component of controlling good oral care habits.   The aim of the paper is to present the problems of the mentally handicapped in the field of dental hygiene, to identify poorly performed dental hygiene and to define its principles, correct procedures, and the possibilities...

ON THE ETYMOLOGY AND HISTORY OF CZECH AND ENGLISH NURSING TERMINOLOGIES

Roman Adamczyk

Ošetřovatelské perspektivy 2022, 5(1):67-76 | DOI: 10.25142/osp.2021.002  

The present  theoretical-review  article  discusses  etymology  and  conceptual  history  of selected terms in Czech and English nursing discourse (patient, client, health, care, nursing, nurse). The aim of the article is to elucidate original word meanings of the relevant expressions in the discipline and their changes. The text is based on the author´s linguistic and teaching experience, a long tradition of etymological lexicography in both languages and a literature search performed in the PubMed, ScienceDirect and Medvik databases.

SELECTED APPROACHES OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH CARE

Viera Jakušová

Ošetřovatelské perspektivy 2022, 5(1):77-85 | DOI: 10.25142/osp.2022.003  

The aim of the paper is elucidate selected approaches of quality management and to point out the specifics of health service. Under the current challenging and complex situation, top healthcare managers need to respond flexibly to changes in the pandemic of COVID-19. Health services are a mixed collective issue under protection and a non-market one. Quality management has undeniable importance in the provision of health services. It affects patients, employees and thus the overall process of providing health services. Its practical application provides organizations with better performance. Quality health care services mean that they must be provided...

RECENZE KNIHY PÉČE O SENIORY V POBYTOVÝCH ZAŘÍZENÍCH SOCIÁLNÍCH SLUŽEB

Zdeňka Římovská

Ošetřovatelské perspektivy 2022, 5(1)  

RECENZE KNIHY DĚTSKÁ NEUROCHIRURGIE

Gabriela Světnická

Ošetřovatelské perspektivy 2022, 5(1):131-132  

RECENZE KNIHY CHIRURGICKÁ PROPEDEUTIKA – ZÁKLADY CHIRURGIE PRO STUDENTY LÉKAŘSKÝCH FAKULT

Iveta Bryjová

Ošetřovatelské perspektivy 2022, 5(1):133-134