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Specifics of nursing care for adolescent with intoxication
MAREŠOVÁ, Daniela
As the number of young people experiencing and experimenting with addictive substances gradually increases, so does the number of hospitilised drugged juveniles. There is also an increase in suicidal attempts undertaken by children using medicaments. Consequently, nurses encounter adolescents whose organisms are intoxicated by alcohol, drugs or medicaments at an increased rate. The purpose of this thesis is to determine nursing specifications which nurses implement when attending to young patients. It focuses on the differences of particular intoxications, the procedures followed, challenges and conventions. Additionally, a comprehensive view of this care is presented of which the recipients are, above all, underaged. This assignment has been compiled using qualitative investigations in the form of semistructured interviews. Conversations with ten nurses from child health departments, children's intensive care and resuscitation units, in addition to detoxication centres for children and youths have been acquired. The research conducted has found that the care for these patients is both physically and mentally demanding for the nurses. No divergence of treatment for underaged patients of any intoxication type has emerged and the most significant feature is coping with frequent aggression expressed on the part of the patients. Conclusions indicate the fact that a patient's age, manifestation, consciousness, vomiting and aggressiveness play a major role as opposed to the initial source of intoxication. This assignment intends to raise nurses' awareness and conversance with nursing care which is provided to intoxicated juveniles. Thereby, this paper contributes to the improvement of the care provided for these young patients.
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