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The specificity of nurse´s care about clients/patients with burns.
PÍŠOVÁ, Leona
General statistics show that approximately one of a hundred citizens suffers from burn every year, of which every three thousandth has to be hospitalized. 1 % of inhabitants are treated for burns in average, of which 97 % on outpatient basis and 3 % are hospitalized. The Bachelor Thesis named Specifics of Nursing Care about Patients with Burns is divided into a theoretical part and a practical part. The theoretical part is divided into a medical part and a nursing part. The first part summarizes burns from medicinal point of view. The next part of the theory summarizes nursing care about a burnt patient. There are saturations of the individual needs presented there. The aim of the research was to find out whether nurses are aware of the specifics of nursing care about patients with burns and whether nurses master the nursing care about patients with burns. A quantitative research method, namely questionnaire was used in the practical part. First I prepared a questionnaire upon studying literature dealing with burns and upon my own experience with treatment of burns. The questionnaire consisting of 35 questions was distributed in hospitals of the South Bohemia Region. Hospitals in Prachatice, Jindřichův Hradec, Český Krumlov and České Budějovice participated, nurses working at surgery wards (casualty ward in České Budějovice) were the respondents. To achieve the goals hypotheses were set, to which the individual questionnaire questions were to answer. There were 4 hypotheses. H1: Nurses know the specifics of nursing care about patients with burns, H2: Nurses know the complications that might occur in patients with burns, H3: Nurses master the care about patients with burns and H4: Nurses know how to saturate the needs of patients with burns. The research results confirmed all the hypotheses. I evaluate this work as a so called manual for care about patients with burns. This work contributes to complex processing of the specifics of treatment of patients with burns and may be used at seminars in hospitals or as study material for medical staff.
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