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Nurse's specific role in communicating with family members in intensive care - supporting loved ones and relatives
Kolníková, Daniela ; Trnková, Ivana (advisor) ; Sekorová, Jitka (referee)
The purpose of the thesis was to map the conditions and barriers of nurses in communicating with relatives and survivors of patients hospitalized in intensive care units and intensive care units with the aim of creating a manual on the principles of proper communication between nurses and patient relatives, which will be of practical use in the daily practice of nurses. It will be applicable in all types of hospital wards. However, we anticipate that it will be of greatest benefit to nurses in intensive care units. For the purpose of the work, we have chosen the method of quantitative research conducted in the form of a non-standardized electronic questionnaire of our own design. We identified the communication situations that nurses subjectively perceived as the most stressful. These are mainly situations closely related to the patient's irreversible condition or death. This finding led us to give increased attention in the handbook to the experience of grieving relatives and the approach to them. We also concluded that the level of concern nurses have about communicating with a patient's relatives decreases in direct proportion to the increasing age of nurses and the associated length of experience in the field. In view of these findings, we recommend that the handbook be designed primarily for...

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