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The job of a nurse in hospice care.
HERZOGOVÁ, Veronika
This bachelor thesis deals with hospice care and focuses on the work of a nurse in the field of hospice care. Hospice care is a comprehensive form of health, psychological and social care that is provided to all patients who suffer from an incurable disease or are in the terminal stage of the disease. Hospice care is closely related to palliative care, which focuses primarily on improving patients' lives and relieving pain. The aim of the bachelor thesis was to map the work of a nurse in the field of hospice care. The empirical part of the bachelor thesis was processed using a qualitative research survey. A semi-structured interview was chosen for the data collection technique. Interviews were conducted with nurses working in hospice facilities throughout the Czech Republic. The interviews revealed that working in a hospice facility is mentally and physically demanding for the nurses, because the hospices lack enough staff to provide quality care and staff. It turned out that doctors often delegate their work to nurses. The most frequently delegated work is the handling of the patient's estate, which is not within the competence of the nurse. Most nurses working in hospice facilities devote all their efforts to work and forget about their personal lives. Most nurses would not recommend working in a hospice facility to other nurses due to financial dissatisfaction and the complexity of this work. The achieved results of the qualitative research survey can serve as a study basis for students of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of the University of South Bohemia and can also help nurses who decide to choose a profession in a hospice facility.
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The death of a pet by the eyes of preschoolers and their parents
GREGOROVÁ, Ilona
The bachelor thesis is devoted to the issue of death of domestic animals from the perspective of preschool children and their parents. The theoretical part focuses on the importance of animals in the lives of children, briefly presents the development of how children understand death and the specifics of their mourning. Finally, there are stated ways how we can help them overcome the grief of when their animal dies. The aim of the practical part is to map out the experiences and attitudes of parents and their children with the issue of death of domestic animals. Within the qualitative research, semi-structured in-depth interviews with six parents and their children were used. These interviews mainly concerned the children's reaction to the death of a pet, the parents' attitude to death and the way children interpret the death of their pet. It turned out that it is very difficult for the parents to explain the topic of death to the children. Parents shouldn't be afraid to talk to children, answer their questions and, above all, show them by example how to cope with difficult life situations.
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Mourning and visual tropes in photojournalism
Jarolímková, Zuzana ; Průchová Hrůzová, Andrea (advisor) ; Silverio, Robert (referee)
About the repetition in art first has written in the 19th century the art historian Aby Warburg who described them as the formula of pathos. He pointed out that these gestures were connected by human emotion which repeats itself independently of the culture. His work inspired Marienne Hirsch who came up with the term memory figures which are used in the visual culture as a representation of a certain historic event. They are part of creating the "postmemory", especially in connection with the second world war. Nowadays, our space is more saturated with photos than with paintings. However, we still can see the influence of art from history and some photographers try to reproduce famous scenes. With inspiration from previous studies, Marta Zarzycka a Martijn Kleppe focused on this "trend" visual tropes which are used not only for better understatement of photos but also for stronger influence on readers. The thesis Mourning and visual tropes in photojournalism aim to show this trend in current media outlets on the tropes of mourning which are connected with the pandemic of coronavirus and war in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020.
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Mourning as Interaction: Reflection of Reality in the series After Life
Čermáková, Ester ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Spalová, Barbora (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis ''Mourning as interaction: Reflection of Reality in the Series After Life'' is to focus on process of mourning in society in context with work of art, in this case represented by series After Life written and directed by Ricky Gervais. The thesis is based on connection of two dimensions such as symbolic interactionism and theory of the grief process within studies in society. Furthermore, there is the objective due to relevant scenes and its interactions demonstrate process of grief in context with reality and discuss possible identification with the main character. Referring to symbolic interactionism, specifically George Herbert Mead's theory involving his work Mind, Self and Society, there are interpreted interactions that are discussed with studies focusing on mourning in society such as Verena Kast's Mourning: Phases and Chances of the Psychological Process.
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Women's experience with miscarriage in the first trimester of pregnancy
Lišková, Tereza ; Presslerová, Pavla (advisor) ; Dymešová, Gabriela (referee)
The aim of the thesis was to map the experiences of women with spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) in the first trimester of pregnancy. The data for the empirical part of the qualitative design was obtained through an electronic document in which the informants answered open- ended questions by writing. The research sample consisted of 17 informants who had experienced spontaneous abortion in the first trimester of their wanted pregnancy and had not yet had any children. The data collected were analysed using qualitative methods and the women's experiences were described and interpreted using grounded theory. Women's experiences were explored in several areas: experiencing abortion, loss and grief, needs, sharing, social environment reactions, and protective factors. Women's experiences of spontaneous abortion included mainly shock, sadness, fear, anger, guilt and feelings of failure. Many women experienced miscarriage as the death of their baby and grieved for it. Women needed to be treated with empathy and respect by those close to them and by health professionals. In particular, they perceived reactions and advice downplaying the significance of their loss as negative. The opportunity to share their experience with the wider community was very important to some women, while others shared their...
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Lost and Found for a Family with a Child in the Final Stage of a Terminal Illness
Růžičková Lhotová, Ilona ; Mužáková, Monika (advisor) ; Mlčková, Marie (referee)
This thesis describes the life of a family with a dying child. The objective of the thesis is to describe the experience of its members after the diagnosis has been decided, during treatment and after the child's decease. It discusses the phases of going through the disease and death of one's own child for the parents and other close persons and how such a critical event in a family's life changes its values and attitudes. The theoretical part of this thesis deals with experiencing of all stages of the child's disease by their closest persons and with the psychology of the ill child. In this context, it briefly describes the history and idea of care of the incurably ill and the possibility of family support provided by non- governmental organizations. The practical part of the thesis contains the findings of the qualitative research conducted using the phenomenology approach on how the parents supported the child in the terminal stage of their disease, what they went through during this difficult time of life and how they remember that time after certain time has elapsed. Respondents include the parents or closest persons of children aged over one year that deceased as a result of a malignant disease.
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Death and the burial rites in the Murasaki Shikibu's novel benji monogatari
Heldenburg, Olga ; Vrhel, František (advisor) ; Nymburská, Dita (referee) ; Tirala, Martin (referee)
The subject of this dissertation is funeral rites in the Murasaki Shikibu's novel, The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari). The analysis of the text seeks to explore the author's depiction of the end of life, the afterlife, communication with spirits or souls of dead and to summarize the notes and descriptions of the proceedings of funeral rituals including 'before burial' and memorial ceremonies. The purpose of this dissertation is to create an overview of funeral rituals and ideas of death described in the text of Genji Monogatari. The Tale of Genji is considered a document which reflects contemporary thinking and can therefore be relied on for a study of funeral and memorial rituals. The main method used to develop the topic is a detailed analysis of theoretical, practical and aesthetic aspects of death described in the Genji Monogatari novel. The ideas of the Heian Court about death and the afterlife were mainly affecting the cult of ancestors, Shinto, Taoism, Buddhism and Shamanism, which also participated in the creation of the funeral cult. Ideas of the afterlife were also very diverse. The world of the living and the world of the dead, in the concept of old Japanese, were not strictly divided and spirits had access to all spheres of life. Communication with spirits of the living and the souls...
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The Palliative Care of Dying People with Intellectual Disabilities in Sheltered Housing
Hušnerová, Lucie ; Cimrmannová, Tereza (advisor) ; Stretti, Sylvie (referee)
My diploma thesis is called The Palliative Care of Dying People with Intellectual Disabilities in Sheltered Housing. The purpose of the text is to create an overview study of palliative care about dying people with mental disabilities. The reason why I have decided to focus on such a relevant issue is a wide shortage of information in Czech Republic compared to other countries. People with mental disabilities nowadays tend to live longer and the question of palliative care for them is crucial. My thesis is divided into six main sections. In the first section I talk about the ethics dilemma of palliative care. By ethics dilemma I mean problems that are needed to be dealt with in palliative care. One of them is the decision if it is adequate to die in an institution or in a home environment. In this section for instance it is described if it is necessarily to tell the truth the patients about their health conditions. The text is also referring to the medical advances comparing to quality of life of dying people. I also describe what the quality of life means to people and how to reach the highest level of quality of life in palliative care. In the second part of my thesis I describe the social, health and other services which are suitable for dying people and their relatives. Most of the named...
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The Phenomenon of Death and Mourning in the Context of Intellectual Disability: Grief Support Group Project
Janyšková, Kristýna ; Šiška, Jan (advisor) ; Franiok, Petr (referee) ; Hádková, Kateřina (referee)
This doctoral dissertation's topic is mourning in people with intellectual disabilities who have lost a loved one. The research focuses mainly on the loss of parents, but also includes the loss of other people, such as grandparents. By loss we mean death, but the results of the work can also be used for losses of a different nature. The aim of this work is to understand grief in people with intellectual disabilities and to suggest appropriate ways to support their grieving process, with emphasis on grief support groups. As part of the research, we set up and implemented 2 support groups for grieving people with intellectual disabilities, each lasting at least 2 months and meeting once a week. At the very beginning of our research, we carried out one support group of the same length as a pilot study. The pilot study was first evaluated and the proposal of the support group according to the original foreign script was modified to better meet the needs of Czech citizens with intellectual disabilities. After the pilot study, we enriched the research with a questionnaire test of our own design, capturing a possible change in process of mourning in people involved in our support groups. We presented the questionnaire test to the participants before the start of the support groups and immediately after...
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