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Paliative care from the point of view of non-medical healthcare workers
Štětinová, Natálie ; Klokočková, Šárka (advisor) ; Nikodemová, Hana (referee)
This bachelor thesis describes dying from the view of nurses and compares implementing principles of paliative care of the dying patient lying on a hospital bed with care in a hospice. The goal of this work was to find out how nurses with practice in both types of institutions look at this care and what differences between them they recognize. The theoretical part involves definitions of basic notions and introduces the the whole themes of dying to the reader. Also basic principles, thoughts and values, that paliative medicine has and practices, will be mentioned. Further it submits basic information about history of this specialization in our country and also in the world, approaches typical expressions and problems of a dying patient and explains what specifics the hospice institutions have and what kind of care they provide. For the comparison, there will be also described how the paliative care for the patient in the terminal phase laying on a hospital bed is implemented. The basis for this part will be mainly appropriate literature and internet sources. For the empirical part the method of qualitative research was chosen. It works with informations gained from interviews with four nurses that have the experience with a dying patient from their earlier practice in a hospital and who are taking...

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