Kontakt 2009, 11(1):131-136 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2009.024

Health and prevention from the viewpoint of the nursing professionPotřeba rozvoje ošetřovatelské komunitní péče

Viera Simočková^1,*, Mária Zamboriová²

¹ Katolícka univerzita v Ružomberku, Fakulta zdravotníctva, detašované pracovisko Košice, Slovenská republika

² Lekárska fakulta Univerzity P. J. Šafárika, Košice, Slovenská republika

The basic aspect of the nurse work is consideration of bio-psycho-social factors affecting the health. Nursing itself deals with persons in health and disease but also with those, whose health is threatened. Nurses are representatives of professions, through the mediation of which they can considerably affect a wide group of clients of all the age categories throughout the life, from the birth to the death. On the other hand, they are also recipients of the health care and thus also of nursing care at all the levels. They are thus also responsible for their own health promotion. Besides others, they provide the health care clients with information in the education within the scope of the primary and secondary prevention. We are interested in the question of promoting nurses health. In our contribution, we offer certain results documenting preventive activities in the instance of promoting nurses health.

Keywords: health; nurse; attitude to health; health promotion; prevention

Received: October 6, 2008; Accepted: October 26, 2008; Published: May 27, 2009  Show citation