Kontakt 2011, 13(1):18-29 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2011.004

Community nurse in taking care of childrenNursing

Valérie Tóthová^*, Alena Machová, Věra Veisová

Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Zdravotně sociální fakulta, katedra ošetřovatelství

Taking care of a child and his/her development and study and treatment of children diseases are areas attracting the attention of physicians and nurses for centuries. This care was formerly implemented together with taking care of adults. Much later, at the break of the 19th century, it was detached, thus giving a chance to establish a new branch - paediatrics. Its development was also associated with a development of paediatric nursing. Growing requirements of the professional public focused on the prevention requirements of takers of the care and developing technical possibilities stepwise called for necessary education of the quality nursing personnel, which could be able to adhere to these needs and requirements. The profession of the paediatric nurse was thus formed, which stepwise started to act under field conditions in addition to the work at hospital and outpatient departments. As soon as since that time, it was possible to observe the origination of the development of the community care. Due to latter events, the community care was, however, reduced or nearly suppressed. By action of social, economic and political changes, the interest in this field is also currently being increased. The target of the contribution presented here is to show problems of the possibility of the development of taking community care of children in the Czech Republic. The subject of the research examination was mapping opinions of the lay and professional public concerning possibilities of the implementation of the work of nurses in taking the community care of children. For the data accumulation, a quantitative research was used based on the technique of the questionnaire examination. Within the framework of this field, in all the target groups (physicians, nurses and citizens), a question was considered whether the community nurses can be useful in taking care of children, which areas of their independent care for children are concerned and what activities should she performed in the case of taking care of school children. The research group included physicians, nurses and citizens. The contribution originated as a part of Grant NS 9608-3 "Incorporation of nurses into the community care of the Czech health care system compared with the situation in EU countries".

Keywords: community care; children; prevention; style of life

Received: January 14, 2011; Accepted: March 6, 2011; Published: March 28, 2011  Show citation