Kontakt, 2013 (vol. 15), issue 1
EditorialEditorial
Sylva Bártlová
Kontakt 2013, 15(1):5-6 
Introduction to problems of Evidence Based NursingNursing - Review
Renáta Zeleníková, Darja Jarošová
Kontakt 2013, 15(1):7-13 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.002
The target of the contribution presented here is to characterize the evidence based nursing, explain particular steps of the evidence based nursing and describe barriers encountered in the course of the evidence based nursing implementation in clinical practice. The evidence based nursing is a process of reaching clinical decisions by nurses through the mediation of taking advantage of available research results, clinical experience and patient's preferences in context of the tools available. If nurses implement the evidence based nursing in context of taking the care and supporting the organizational culture of the institution, then high quality care...
Quality of life as a part of nursingNursing - Review
Věra Olišarová, František Dolák, Valérie Tóthová
Kontakt 2013, 15(1):14-21 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.003
Philosophy of contemporary nursing is inseparably associated with holism, with introducing the most recent scientific knowledge into nursing practice and accessibility of quality care to healthy as well as diseased individuals. In spite of the fact that this is a relatively young scientific discipline, it is supported by quality theoretical as well as scientific background and terminology. The main targets are maintaining, supporting and recovering health of individuals similarly as development of self-sufficiency and moderation of suffering in incurable patients or possibly helping in quiet dying and death. For this purpose, it is not sufficient to...
Principles of providing palliative and hospice care for childrenNursing - Review
Jan Ratiborský, Jaroslava Fendrychová
Kontakt 2013, 15(1):22-28 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.004
In general, the palliative care is defined as a complex nursing and medicinal care provided for incurable patients who cannot be healed by using tools of contemporary medicine. For adult patients, this care is most typically provided in hospices or at departments of hospitals, which are adjusted to this care and equipped with technological background as well as professional human sources. It is currently possible to state that in each region of the Czech Republic, there is a hospice providing incurable patients with palliative and hospice care. Specialized palliative care is provided here for patients and their families.However, severely and incurably...
Assessment of needs of family members in palliative careNursing
Radka Bužgová, Gabriela Macháčková, Věra Pražáková
Kontakt 2013, 15(1):29-37 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.005
The target of the research was to establish needs of family members taking care of patients at terminal stage of their disease in association with the quality of their life; the further purpose was to determine differences in needs of family members depending on the site of dwelling of the patient. The sample group included 62 family members of patients at terminal stages of their diseases - Karnofski score
Assessment of organizational culture of hospital in dimension of communication and relationship to workNursing
Zuzana Šachová, Iva Brabcová
Kontakt 2013, 15(1):38-45 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.006
The subject of the research examination was mapping of the organizational culture at a selected medical institution in the dimension of the communication and relationship of staff members to their work. A quantitative interviewing method was employed for the implementation of the research examination. The sample group included 76 nurses of the Hospital Písek, a. s. Questionnaires were distributed at departments of surgery, internal medicine, gynaecology, urology, neurology and orthopaedics. The choice of respondents followed the intention of the research examination. The examination was performed in February 2011. Questions in the dimension "Communication"...
Importance of preventive programmes and provisions focused on reducing the frequency of oral cavity diseases including dental traumatology in children at younger and older school ageHealth and Social Sciences - Review
Michaela Pospíšilová
Kontakt 2013, 15(1):46-56 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.007
The contents of the article are focused on the definition of the oral health, which is a very important part of the education for health. The quality care in this field enhances the living standard of the population in all the aspects. The literature search describes competences of the dental surgeon and dental hygienist, emphasizes the need of regular and systematic care for the oral cavity, and mentions types of the prevention with pointing out the primary prevention since its lack results in irreversible damages in the field of oral health. The article furthermore points out the importance of preventive examinations of the oral cavity in children...
Tourette syndrome and its effects on the quality of lifeHealth and Social Sciences - Review
Zuzana Škodová, Veronika Maheľová, Petra Lajčiaková
Kontakt 2013, 15(1):57-65 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.008
Tourette syndrome is a lifelong neuropsychiatric disease exerting its onset in the childhood and characterized by the presence of tics, which are also frequently accompanied by behaviour disorders and further co-morbid conditions. Genetic factors frequently participate in its development, but epigenetic effects also cannot be excluded. In addition to tics, individuals with Tourette syndrome suffer from rather numerous locomotor and other specific symptoms in the behavioural and mental areas. The target of the present outline was to bring a summarization of topical knowledge from the scientific literature concerning the quality of life of patients with...
Providing of equal accessibility of taking health care of children and youth (in the field of preventive medical examinations on the part of the state in terms of the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria)Health and Social Sciences - Original article
Jana Samková, Miloš Velemínský
Kontakt 2013, 15(1):66-74 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.009
In association with membership conditions of countries in the European Union, which prefers national politics of the health care in certain topics, a situation can be encountered where some European Union countries are bound by the ratification of international conditions on human rights in addition to their national protection, which does not hold for some other countries. This also concerns the implementation and introduction in practice of the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine. Whereas the Czech Republic and Slovakia signed and ratified this international convention, Austria has not yet given their signature and ratification. Article 3...
A probe into diversity of the social work concept in students of social branchesHealth and Social Sciences - Original article
Alena Kajanová, David Urban
Kontakt 2013, 15(1):75-81 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.010
The article presented here deals with the diversity of the social work concept in students of social branches at the Faculty of Health and Social Studies (branches Rehabilitation-Psychosocial Care for Children, Adults and Seniors and Social Work in Public Administration) and Faculty of Theology (the branch Social and Charitable Work), University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice.The target of the work was to identify tendencies of students of particular branches to some of the three concepts of the social work according to: administrative, professional or philanthropic.We assumed that the concept preferred by the students will correspond...
Aralia - plant adaptogensBiomedicine - Review
Zdeňka Navrátilová, Jiří Patočka
Kontakt 2013, 15(1):82-88 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.011
Stress is a risk factor for a number of diseases and in general, it is an important predictor of the human health. Herbal products employed as adaptogens are helpful in the regulation and control of the stress reaction and bring strong evidence in support of the use of medicinal products based on substances of plant origin for these purposes.Supportive and tonic plants belong to oldest tools used by herbalists worldwide. The substance exerting tonic effects on the human organism and inducing the capability of resisting stress factors is an adaptogen. This substance must be non-harmful to the organism, i. e. it must not induce any disorders of physiological...
Toxic effects of selected trichothecene (epoxytrichothecene) mycotoxins in manBiomedicine - Review
František Malíř, Vladimír Ostrý, Eva Novotná
Kontakt 2013, 15(1):89-99 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.012
In the human organism, mycotoxins present a considerable risk, which must be controlled, i.e. its impact on the human health should be minimized. Biological effects of mycotoxins are associated with their different chemical structures. Important mycotoxins also include a group of so called epoxytrichothecenes, as for example DON, DAS (diacetoxyscirpenol), nivalenol, T-2 toxin, fusarenons, satratoxins, roridins, verrucarins, etc. which have been described in a number exceeding 170. The decisive factors determining toxic effects of mycotoxins in general, and thus also of trichothecenes, are their dose and time period of their action (the magnitude of...
Recenze na knihy; ZprávyReviews
J. Wichsová, J. Vitoň, L. Radková, M. Velemínský
Kontakt 2013, 15(1):100-104