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Nurses readiness for providing specific care to patients with apallic syndrome
PROKEŠOVÁ, Helena
Apalic syndrome or waking state of unconsciousness is a special type of consciousness disturbance, the essential feature of which is wakefulness with open eyes. Specific nursing care of a patient with apalic syndrome is the most challenging because the patient is completely dependent on this care. Therefore, it is necessary for nurses working with apalic patients to be prepared to provide nursing care to these patients as well as possible Diploma thesis assesses and evaluates the knowledge of future nurses on the apalic syndrome and the specific nursing care, which patients with apalic syndrome are provided with. This knowledge is compared with the knowledge of nurses who have already been providing nursing care to these patients and, based on the experience of those nurses, the ways how to improve the knowledge are surveyed. Quantitative research, an interrogation method, anonymous questionnaire technique was used in this section. In the thesis the factors are assessed that may directly affect the preparedness of future nurses and nurses already working to provide specific nursing care to patients with apalic syndrome. Nurses themselves suggest solutions. In this section the qualitative research survey, the questioning method, and the half standardized interview technique were involved. Apalic syndrome is one of topical and discussed issues. It is difficult to tackle this serious problem, it involves not only medical but also ethical and economic aspects. From the outcomes of the survey a lower level of knowledge of future nurses on apalic syndrome and specifics of nursing care is apparent. This partly reflects their preparedness. Conditions should be created for future nurses so that they could deepen their knowledge through study and employ this knowledge directly to apalic patients. Nursing practice carried out during study may also come in useful. It can help facilitate nurses´ work in units where nursing care is provided to apalic patients and eliminate factors that may affect the quality of care. The objective of this thesis was to point out to the issue of providing a specific nursing care of apalic patients not only from the perspective of future nurses.
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