Kontakt, 2010 (vol. 12), issue 3
To nejdůležitějšíEditorial
Jiří Šimek
Kontakt 2010, 12(3):249 
Kmenové buňkyEditorial
Karel Smetana
Kontakt 2010, 12(3):251-254
Conceptual models in nursing - importance of their use in measuring the quality of lifeNursing
Elena Gurková
Kontakt 2010, 12(3):255-263 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.036
In nursing, in association with the quality of life, a disproportion is criticized, which occurs between its theoretical basis (insufficient conceptual-methodological starting points) and research (use of a heterogeneous spectrum of tools for its measurement). The theoretical-methodological starting points of the quality of life established in nursing have been discussed in domestic literature to a limited extent only.The target of the present contribution is to analyze relationships between models/theories of the quality of life and tools employed in its measurements, which were established in nursing. Based on this analysis, we delimit principal...
Quantification of anxiety and fear of death in students of nursingNursing
Radka Bužgová
Kontakt 2010, 12(3):264-271 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.037
In nurses, the approach to and fear of death can affect their attitude to dying patients and thus, in the course of the education in nursing, it is suitable to discuss problems of the death and fear of the death. The target of the present research was to find the measure of the anxiety and fear of death in nursing students depending on the year of study, age and experience with the death of a close relative or friend. The measurements were based on the scale of anxiety and fear of death (The Revised Collet-Lester Fear of Death Scale - FODS) by Collett and Lester (1969) measuring the fear in four categories: fear of one's own death, fear of dying, fear...
Role of community nurse in taking care of seniorsNursing
Valérie Tóthová, Sylva Bártlová
Kontakt 2010, 12(3):272-280 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.038
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...
Perception of nursing behaviour by nurses and patients at surgical departmentsNursing
Darja Jarošová, Hana Tomášková, Evridiki Papastavrou
Kontakt 2010, 12(3):281-287 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.039
The target of the study presented here was to determine the perception of the nursing behaviour by surgical nurses and patients, to establish relationships between demographic characteristics of nurses and patients and their perception of the nursing behaviour and to provide their comparison.The sample of the quantitative, descriptive correlation study consisted of two groups - a group of surgical nurses (n = 185) from four hospitals of the Moravian-Silesian Region and a group of patients (n = 279) from the same departments. The data accumulation was implemented between 1. 9. and 30. 11. 2009 with the use of the CBI-24 standardized measurement...
Activity of nurse in the process of making decisions by oncological patientsNursing
Alica Slamková, Gabriela Vörösová
Kontakt 2010, 12(3):288-297 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.040
Worldwide modernization effects also affect providing of the quality of nursing care with the use of new procedures. The development and use of standard terminology through the mediation of classification systems in nursing belongs to principal features of the nursing profession in the 21st century. The purpose of its use is accurate delimitation and expression of activities performed by nurses in relation to patient needs to achieve certain results. In the present contribution, we considered problems of taking care of oncological patients, in which conflict in decisions occurred in association with the health care. We emphasize the priority role of...
Analysis of contemporary condition of institutional services provided for seniors in České BudějoviceHealth and Social Sciences
Petra Zimmelová, Lucie Kozlová, Šárka Kovárnová, David Kostohryz, Zdeňka Šachtová
Kontakt 2010, 12(3):298-306 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.041
The contribution presents results of a research examination focused on monitoring institutional services for seniors in the territory of the city České Budějovice. The main purpose of this research was mapping of needs of people at post-productive age in association with institutional services offered by the city České Budějovice. A further important aspect was a question concerning the extent of acquainting seniors with a possibility of the use of a new social financial contribution - contribution to the care. The project also includes the Prognosis of the need of institutional services, however, this part is not discussed in the present contribution.The...
Benefits from courses of memory training in old people's homes in the county Strakonice from the viewpoint of seniorsHealth and Social Sciences
Petra Formánková, Lenka Motlová
Kontakt 2010, 12(3):307-314 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.042
The old people's homes belong to institutional social facilities and represent an institutional form of taking care of seniors, who are offered with accommodation, catering, help in managing common procedures of taking care of oneself and with a wide spectrum of activating actions. The article is focused on one of possibilities of the activation - memory training. The target of the research was to find what the benefit of courses of memory training is from the viewpoint of seniors in old people's homes in the county Strakonice. A further target was mapping of the satisfaction of seniors with courses of training the memory in old people's homes in this...
Taking advantage of the financial support of care for seniors in providing the necessary help from the system of social servicesHealth and Social Sciences
Petra Formánková
Kontakt 2010, 12(3):315-324 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.043
The financial support of the care was incorporated into the social system with effective date 1. 1. 2007 based on Law No. 108/2006 Sb. On social services as amended. The contribution can only be used to cover expenses associated with providing the help for and supporting of a person, who is dependent on the care given by another person. Thus, it may only be "consumed" as a reimbursement of the care provided by a social service caregiver and of course also of expenses originating in a person providing the care, i.e. family member or other person, who is not a social service caregiver, in association with providing the care. The acceptor can combine...
Willingness to accept changes in the risk behaviour in correlation with biochemical parameters of atherosclerosis in clients after reconstruction vascular surgery of distal extremitiesHealth and Social Sciences
Petr Pták
Kontakt 2010, 12(3):325-330 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.044
The authors attempted to find whether the clients after surgery for ischaemic disease of distal extremities will be willing to accept changes in their living style in different fields of the life. Based on a questionnaire completed during control examinations by 117 clients dismissed from the hospital after reconstruction vascular surgery of distal extremities, data were accumulated concerning the subjective attitude to the problem and analysis of serum values of biochemical parameters of atherosclerosis (HDL, LDL, total cholesterol and triglycerides) before and after the operation. Results of the secondary prevention in the treatment of ischaemic...
Úvod k textu Allana Wallace: Buddhistická tradice šamaty - metody výzkumu vědomí a jeho zjemňováníHealth and Social Sciences
Petr Zach
Kontakt 2010, 12(3):331-332
Buddhistická tradice šamaty - metody výzkumu vědomí a jeho zjemňování. Překlad z angličtiny (Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6, No. 2-3, 1999, str. 175-187)Health and Social Sciences
B. Allan Wallace
Kontakt 2010, 12(3):333-342 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.046
KanabinoidyPopularizace vědy
Lenka Milfortová
Kontakt 2010, 12(3):343-351 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.047
Systém léčby na Spinální rehabilitační jednotce v Rehabilitačním ústavu KladrubyVaria
Eva Talpová, Marie Kulakovská
Kontakt 2010, 12(3):352-357 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.048
Recenze na knihyReviews
Jan Vitoň, Lenka Motlová
Kontakt 2010, 12(3):358-362