Kontakt 2006, 8(2):286-291 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2006.047

Knowledge concerning health problems in Romany patientsNursing

Gabriela Vörösová^1,*, Ivana Majlátová²

¹ Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, Fakulta sociálnych vied a zdravotníctva, katedra ošetrovateľstva

² Fakultná nemocnica Nitra

Hildegard E. Peplau was an American expert in the field of nursing, who emphasized importance of interpersonal relationships between nurses and patients. Romany people are a specific ethnic group. The attitude to taking nursing care of these people calls for knowledge of their way of life with respecting their ethnic differences. Diagnosis by nurse - Deficiency of knowledge 00126 also requires from the nurse psychotherapeutic activities, which will help the patient to avoid dysfunctional behaviour and to understand causes and consequences of this behaviour. The classification system of nursing activities NIC - Nursing Interventions Classification and the classification system of results of nursing NOC - Nursing Outcomes Classification offer a higher form of documenting the nursing process. The purpose of the present work was to use the nursing model by H. E. Peplau in Romany patients. Quasi-experiment was the principal method of the work. Research results supported the appropriateness of working hypotheses. We found that in all the n = 50 patients, knowledge concerning the health problems were enhanced. In the first measurement, the average values of the NOC Likert scale was of 1.96 and in the second measurement, it was of 2.91. Through the analysis of the documentation provided by nurses it was demonstrated that by the use of a group selected from the NIC, nursing activities were unified and made more comprehensive and by the use of a group selected from the NOC, uniform and objective evaluation of resulting criteria was achieved.

Keywords: Hildegard E. Peplau; Romany community; deficiency of knowledge; NIC; NOC

Published: December 15, 2006  Show citation