Kontakt 2006, 8(2):224-228 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2006.038

Roles of medical personnel in active participation of involvement of family in treatment of patients with speech disordersNursing

Ivica Gulášová

Trenčianska univerzita, Ústav zdravotníctva, katedra ošetrovateľstva

The communication describes problems of taking nursing care of patients with speech disorders. The author demonstrates the unavoidable role of involvement of the family in the treatment process and taking nursing care of its sick member. She analyzes the most frequently occurring speech disorders, which should be included into basic knowledge of nurses. She demonstrates the most frequent causes of speech disorders, which include the altered health condition, for example after a sudden cerebral event, she describes aphasia with differentiating it as motor and sensitive, and furthermore she considers disorders of the speed (dynamics) of the speech, disorders of speech contents, disorders of the pronunciation, disorders of the patient timbre, disorders of mimic behaviour, disorders of gesticulation behaviour and disorders of sight manifestations in the course of the communication. A special attention is paid to the role of nurses in the examination of the patient speech, in the effective cooperation with the family and in the involvement of the family in the treatment of the family member with the speech disorder. The author presents particular provisions - interventions - of the nurse. Considerable attention is also paid to disorders of the speech in children with presenting principles of the communication of the nurse with these children. The purpose of the work was to demonstrate the importance of knowledge of this psychosocial region of the nurse work, which is relatively sparingly discussed in the special literature. A further target was to present at the level of practice principles of the individual attitude to patients with speech disorders, which are considered in the conclusion of the work.

Keywords: Communication; speech disorder; involvement of family

Published: December 15, 2006  Show citation