Kontakt 2009, 11(1):137-141 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2009.025

Management of nursing care for people with special needs in a communityPotřeba rozvoje ošetřovatelské komunitní péče

Andrea Solgajová^*, Miroslava Líšková

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

The term people with functional handicaps or people with special needs characterizes an individual and his/her specific features by a more positive concept compared with the negativistic concept of an individual considered as involved, defective or handicapped. The person with functional involvements, (which can either be somatic, sensory and mental ones or concern communication functions) cannot eliminate the disorder, but the fact, whether he/she will be handicapped, disadvantaged in all aspects or only in certain aspects of his/her life, depends on attitudes and activity of the society which he/she is living in.
The change in our health-social system with respect to people with health involvements/people with special needs is of a principal importance in the process of the socialization and integration of handicapped people by the support of the family care and alternative forms of services in a community. The institutional form of the care should be limited, since it frequently results in isolation and emotional and functional deprivation of clients. Alternative and non-traditional forms of nursing care in the community should be simultaneously developed. An integral part of the definition of the care quality is mutual interconnection of taking the care when dismissing the patient to the home environment. Many quality data positively affect the education of people with development of a certain type of handicap, their position and self-fulfilment in the society. The public information is considerably affected by media, literature and education by healthcare professionals. An important part of the timely integration of people with existing involvement into the society are also associations, which can be already recognized and considered in the hospital similarly as further possibilities of help in economic and social spheres. The target of the contribution is to analyze the extent to which the amount of acquired information associated with an individual involvement can affect the quality of life as well as evaluation of the importance of the integration of people with special needs into the community.

Keywords: people with special needs with health involvements; nursing care; community; family; education; compensatory tools; information; integration

Received: October 6, 2008; Accepted: November 24, 2008; Published: May 27, 2009  Show citation