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Systematic screening and brief interventions for risk use of alcohol - possibilities and limits of application into practice of nurses in a selected Czech district
Velátová, Jana ; Kalina, Kamil (advisor) ; Reichelová, Lenka (referee)
Considering serious health, social and subsequently economic impacts which are rising due to the heavy alcohol consumption in the Czech Republic and the whole of Europe, the WHO proposed scientifically based tools, the aim of which is to minimize damage caused by alcohol. Health service is, therefore, highly recommended to establish Screening and brief interventions (SBI). The SBI method belongs to behavioural and cognitive-behavioural therapies. The goal is to identify people with risk or harmful alcohol consumption, to stop its usage, to diminish risks and get a motivation to seek specialized assistance. The majority of recommendations to establish SBI for risk and harmful drinking are especially aimed at primary care, mostly at doctors. Nurses with their broad competence in a lot of medical fields are left behind even though their activity including direct contact with patients involves analysing the levels of risk factors which alcohol is a part of. The purpose of the study is to clarify under which circumstances it is possible to effectively apply the SBI methodology into nursing practice in a selected Czech district, to describe the current engagement and extent of nurses' motivation to deal with alcohol prevention, to look for possibilities of SBI integration into real nursing practice and...
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The role of nurse in recognition of the early stages of dementia
VELÁTOVÁ, Jana
The aim of this work was to find out whether the nurses working in the rooms of G.P. for adults can recognize signals of early stages of clients´ dementia, whether the nurses purposefully aim their effort to recognise the signals and whether the elderly people themselves are interested in such interventions. The group to be investigated was made up of a group of nurses from the G.P. rooms in the Tabor District and a group of elderly people at the age of 65 and over from the Tabor District as well. The investigation was made through quantitative research, questions; structured questions were used for the collection of data. The reason to do this work was to draw the attention to the nurses having broad possibilities to recognize the early stages of this disorder and to influence the fate of a lot of patients. The findings did not confirm the hypothesis that the nurses working in the G.P. rooms do not have possibilities to fully use their competence or to use their new knowledge of nursing to recognize symptoms of dementia of the elderly people and to broaden awareness of healthy aging. The research confirmed the second hypothesis that the nurses in the G.P. rooms do not purposefully aim their efforts to identify the early stages of dementia. The third hypothesis was confirmed; the elderly people showed their interest in the nurse{\crq}s intervention to identify the symptoms of dementia, thus confirming their reliance in nurses{\crq} expertise. All three objectives were fulfilled. At the close of the study it was pointed out that the existing approach of the nurses in the G.P. rooms to this disorder should change, the nurses should partake in using standardised less time consuming methods to test the elderly people with a higher risk of dementia, and to broaden awareness of healthy aging and all possible ways to prevent the syndrome of dementia.
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