Kontakt 2010, 12(3):272-280 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.038

Role of community nurse in taking care of seniorsNursing

Valérie Tóthová*, Sylva Bártlová
Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Zdravotně sociální fakulta, katedra ošetřovatelství

The community health care involves an important potential benefit for the population health and takes a crucial and irreplaceable position in the healthcare system. In the Czech Republic, it is also necessary to provide conditions for the development of the community care, in which multidisciplinary teams of professionals will provide the holistic and integrated care, which is based on individual attitude to each particular person in all the age periods, in health and disease, and does not call for hospitalization. Taking care of seniors is a crucial area for the role of independently working community nurses in the Czech healthcare system. Nurses taking care of seniors should have important positions in multidisciplinary teams since based on their competences they can contribute to the protection and improvement of the physical and mental health of seniors. Within the scope of our research, we were interested in opinions of the lay and expert public on the role of nurses in community nursing in terms of taking care of seniors. In association with this field of taking care, within the scope of a research in all the target groups (physicians, nurses and Czech Republic citizens), the authors of the present communication considered what the perception of the currently existing level of taking care of seniors in the Czech Republic is and what types of services are most urgently missing in this care. The sample group included 1007 physicians, 1005 general nurses and 2022 citizens. These respondents were selected by a random choice with the help of quota. The lay as well as expert public most strongly prefers just the care for seniors within the scope of the community nursing care. The expert as well as lay public considers the currently existing level of taking care of seniors in the Czech Republic as average. In association with missing services in taking care of seniors, short stay hospitals, old people's homes and relieving stays are most frequently considered as missing by the expert public (physicians and nurses). Members of lay public (the citizens) are most considerably missing old people's homes, houses with nursing care and short stay hospitals. The problem of missing services is tightly related to the elimination of drawbacks in the field of taking care of seniors. Extension of the existing services is considered by physicians in agreement with nurses as the most important starting point for the elimination of problems in the field of taking care of seniors. Nurses prefer more considerably financial benefits for family caregivers and physicians put a larger emphasize on the renewal of the function of geriatric nurse under field conditions.

Keywords: community care; nurse; senior; physician; public

Received: August 12, 2010; Accepted: September 8, 2010; Published: October 20, 2010  Show citation

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Tóthová V, Bártlová S. Role of community nurse in taking care of seniors. Kontakt. 2010;12(3):272-280. doi: 10.32725/kont.2010.038.
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