Kontakt, 2012 (vol. 14), issue 4
Factors affecting satisfaction of Czech nurses with workNursing
Silvie Haroková, Elena Gurková
Kontakt 2012, 14(4):401-409 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.040 
Introduction: Within the framework of the Czech Republic, studies in the field of the satisfaction with the work were particularly aimed at the identification of priorities of the occupational environment of general nurses and degree of their saturation by the employer. In our study, we examined relationships between social and demographic factors and satisfaction of nurses with their work.Targets: The target of the contribution was to find the relationship between selected social and demographic variables and particular fields of the satisfaction of Czech nurses with their work.Sample group and methods: The research sample included 499 nurses...
Importance of accreditation of hospitals for nursingNursing
Jana Somrová, Sylva Bártlová
Kontakt 2012, 14(4):410-420 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.041
The process of the accreditation of healthcare institutions presents a considerable progress in nursing with participation of whole teams of equivalent partners: general nurses, healthcare technicians, physiotherapists, nutritional therapists, radiological assistants, physicians and managers. At the present time, the accreditation of healthcare institutions is the most effective tool for achieving quality nursing care. The interest in the accreditation as an effective tool for the quality control and management is increasing worldwide. Within the framework of a research examination, we were interested in a question how the members of the top and middle...
Knowledge of NANDA International, NIC and NOC concepts in terms of education of general nursesNursing
Alena Pospíšilová, Miroslava Kyasová, Petra Juřeníková
Kontakt 2012, 14(4):421-433 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.042
The target of the research was to provide mapping of knowledge of the terms NANDA International, NIC and NOC, among general nurses and find effects of the highest education of respondents on the level of this knowledge. Information was acquired by a quantitative research method with the use of a questionnaire. The questionnaire was completed by 161 general nurses. The answers of respondents were divided into categories by the level of the knowledge of respondents in terms of their highest education achieved. The data accumulated were statistically tested with the use of the Pearson test at a significance level of 0.05. There were statistically significant...
Attitude of nurses to nursing classification systemsNursing
František Dolák, Pavel Scholz, Valérie Tóthová
Kontakt 2012, 14(4):434-443 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.043
The use of the standardized nursing terminology is a basic feature of nursing professions in the 21st century. The development of this language in nursing and its use itself characterize a new era of nursing science. The description of the work of nurses also means visualization of areas which were formerly "invisible" in nursing, as e.g. formation of a database, which can be used for monitoring and evaluating the nursing care efficacy. The target of the whole project was to provide mapping of the topical condition of the nursing documentation in hospitals of the South-Bohemian Region, to find whether classification systems NIC (Nursing Interventions...
Stressing aspects of oncological diseases and possibilities of psychosocial help within the framework of social work and self-helping groupsHealth and Social Sciences - Review
Helena Záškodná, Gabriela Bolková
Kontakt 2012, 14(4):444-455 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.044
The study presents an outline aimed at mental stress induced by a tedious situation of life - oncological disease - and at possibilities of managing this stress to a certain extent through the mediation of a participation in a self-helping group. It acquaints the reader with the concept of the stress and crisis in general. It offers an outline of different concepts concerning stress with emphasizing the conceptual development of stress, at the beginning of which there were classical biological standpoints by W. B. Cannon, H. H. B. Selye (supplemented by the evolutional psychology viewpoint - H. S. Brachy) and later the transaction theory of stress...
Social work in viewpoint of students of social disciplinesHealth and Social Sciences - Original article
David Urban, Alena Kajanová
Kontakt 2012, 14(4):456-463 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.045
The concept of the social work is very diverse and its delimitation presents to a certain extent an individual construction supported by existing minor paradigms of the social work (Payne, 2005).The article reflects the diversity in the social work concepts and presents results of a probe implemented in a sample of male and female students of social disciplines at the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Faculty of Health and Social Studies and Theological Faculty. The target of the work is to identify the concept of the social work in the viewpoint of male and female students of social disciplines.The participants were supposed...
Emotional solidarity in taking care of seniorsHealth and Social Sciences - Original article
Hana Pacáková, Romana Trusinová
Kontakt 2012, 14(4):464-474 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.046
Within the framework of a research into the Family solidarity, which served as a basis of the article presented here, a questionnaire examination was employed to address more than 400 families taking care of seniors who were not self-sufficient. From these families, about 10% of seniors completed an independent questionnaire supplementing information by the point of view of the senior who experienced the care. The research was focused on dimensions of the family solidarity according to V. L. Bengtson, and in the present article, the emotional solidarity is dealt with, expressed by the degree of the reciprocity in the emotional relationship. In the...
It is very helpful that they do not understand our language: suggestive and manipulative elements in behaviour of medieval physiciansHealth and Social Sciences - Original article
Zdeněk Žalud
Kontakt 2012, 14(4):475-484 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.047
History of medicine cannot be understood as history of "progress" only, but also as history of persisting stereotypes, particularly in the relationship morals of the physician - morals of the patient. In the Middle Age, there was no uniform legal environment, which could warrant standards of the medical profession; there was an enormous competition between physicians educated at universities and further medical practitioners. Rulers usually did not interfere with this condition and the protection of patients was provided to a certain extent by medical faculties only based on the principle of guilds. Graduated physicians purposefully established their...
Adaptation of patients to rheumatoid arthritis in context of the Roy adaptation modelBiomedicine - Original article
Mária Sováriová Soósová
Kontakt 2012, 14(4):485-496 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.048
The target of the study presented here was to test selected propositions of the Roy adaptation model (RAM) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), particularly a) to consider relationships between RAM modes in patients with RA, b) to consider the adaptation level in patients with RA within the framework of four RAM modes and, based on a comparison with a control group of health individuals to assess the effect of the disease (diagnosis of RA) as a focal stimulus to the adaptation in the modes followed and c) to estimate effects of the RA duration, age, gender, education and marital status as possible contextual and residual factors affecting the...
Methods of detection and identification of mouldsBiomedicine - Review
Vlastimil Dohnal, Daniel Jun
Kontakt 2012, 14(4):497-504 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.049
Fibrous micromycetes (moulds) can negatively affect the human or animal health, either as parasites or organisms producing toxic secondary metabolites or due to reducing the nutritional quality of the food contaminated. These facts call for necessary development of new rapid detection techniques, which will be able to reveal the presence of moulds at just the right time.For the identification, a standard cultivation method can be employed, where particular morphological characters are compared with figures in atlas. This procedure is very time consuming and thus, new molecular-biological, chemical or physical methods are stepwise being investigated...
Biologically active substances of the annual wormwood (Artemisia annua L.) and their use in the therapy of malariaBiomedicine - Review
Zdeňka Navrátilová, Jiří Patočka
Kontakt 2012, 14(4):505-513 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.050
The annual wormwood (Artemisia annua L.) is a plant from the family Asteraceae. It comes from China, where it is an important part of the traditional Chinese medicine. Terpenoids (particularly sesquiterpenic lactones), flavonoids, coumarins and other metabolites of shikimic acid are the prevalent substances in the species A. annua, as is also the case in many other species of the genus Artemisia. The most important substance is biologically active sesquiterpene artemisinine (Qinghaosu). Artemisinine, sesquiterpenic lactone with endoperoxide bond, found in above-ground parts of A. annua, is more effective, more rapid and less toxic in the treatment...
Recenze na knihyReviews
J. Patočka, M. Velemínský, A. Kajanová, J. Vitoň
Kontakt 2012, 14(4):514-519
ZprávyNews
Josef Smolík
Kontakt 2012, 14(4):520-521