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Cloud-Based Server for Robot Management
Jezerský, Matouš ; Kapinus, Michal (referee) ; Materna, Zdeněk (advisor)
The goal of this project is to make robots running the ROS platform, and the servers running on them, more accessible to the users, without the need of reconfiguration after a change of network or the need of direct VPN connection, as well as with the emphasis on minimal software requirements for both users and robots. The result is an open-source application, which provides that. The solution is a reverse proxy server, put inbetween the clients and the servers running on robots - Dispatcher. For connection between clients and robots, two OpenVPN networks are used, and as a secure user interface, the existing system RMS is used and extended with Dispatcher interface. Among other things, Dispatcher collects information about all connected robots so a summary can be displayed. This set of software tools therefore allows an authorized user to connect to robots in various networks, without the need of other client software apart of OpenVPN client and web browser.
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Nursing in palliative care of child clients in the CR
RATIBORSKÝ, Jan
The thesis deals with the topic of palliative care of child patients/clients. The theoretical part explains the terms palliative, respite and hospice care of both, adult and particularly child clients and their families. The work shows the development of palliative care in our country as well as in the world and highlights the present modern elements of the palliative care approach to a child and his/her family. The practical part is based on a qualitative research that followed two goals and tried to answer two research questions. A research method of content analysis of a document containing data obtained from the Czech Statistical Office was applied on the first goal, aimed at mapping the possible need of palliative care of children in the CR. The number of children that might require palliative care in the CR was estimated upon the data. The second goal was to map the possibilities of palliative care services for children at the territory of the CR. A quantitative method of deep interview was used for implementation of the goal. The research sample consisted of 6 respondents from 6 workplaces. Only general and paediatric nurses from wards and facilities chosen upon the fact that nurses may more often meet an incurably ill child and his/her family were asked.This thesis and its conclusions are mainly aimed at professionals, but also to the general public. The research results inform on the possibilities of providing palliative care to children and their families at the specific departments. The work may be used for study purposes as well as for nurses working at hospices, children oncology wards, home care agencies etc. Paediatric nurses may make use of it as well.
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Civil protection as a textbook for students with special needs.
VELC, Radovan
Civil protection is a current topic in today's world. Nearly every person in our society meets an emergency during their lives and therefore it is important for every person to be aware of at least the basics of this issue, to know the situations which can come and the ways how to solve the issue. Civil protection in the Czech Republic has developed and it has reached its current form in which the emergency is based on the Integrated Rescue System. The important thing is that at the very beginning of the emergency there is an ordinary citizen who is at the place of formation of emergency and he or she has to dial emergency telephone number and then try to minimize its negative effects until the Integrated Rescue System comes. Therefore it is important for people to gain knowledge which can be used during emergency. The knowledge should be gained either at primary or secondary school. Nowadays civil protection is a part of curricula in primary and secondary education. However, there are curricula for ordinary pupils and for pupils with special educational needs. Current trends in special education along with current legislation are trying to integrate pupils with special educational needs into ordinary classes. It means that a pupil who was diagnosed as a pupil with learning disability, has difficulties with learning at primary school and is used to the attitude and support of special education, will be in a class with students without disabilities and will be supposed to do well at school. If it will be so, the pupils will need special study texts in many subjects. Therefore the issue of integration, its influence on the quality of education and potential impact on global integration of pupils with special educational needs into regular education are stated in the thesis. The aim of this thesis was to compile a study text with the topic of civil protection for pupils with special educational needs. The study text should be adequate to their abilities. Another reason for compiling the text was the fact that in Secondary education protection of civilians used to be a part of civics but, as the Framework educational programme for Secondary education has been changed, protection of civilians is now often taught in physical education. In Primary education protection of civilians can be taught as a cross cutting issue nearly in every subject. Physical education teachers and teachers of pupils with special educational needs do not have any books which would be specially created for this group of pupils. The thesis is divided into a theoretical part and a part with a research question and a methodology of a research. The theoretical part is aimed at the history of civil protection in the Czech Republic with its development to its current form, the current situation in education and the current trends in relation to education of pupils with special educational needs and including civil protection lessons into the Framework educational programme for the given group of pupils. In the works devoted to the research question and research methodology, was compiled research question whether pupils with special educational needs adequately trained in the area of civil protection. Due to the nature of thesis it was necessary to determine the state of awareness of students on the issue of civil protection, were established hypothesis, first - whether the pupils' awareness of the issue reaches the 80 % correct answers, second - whether pupils' knowledge in the area depend on the study year. A questionnaire for verification or refutation of the hypothesis was compiled and 104 pupils with special educational needs aged 15 to 18 filled it. The results of the survey show the lack of knowledge of the surveyed group. Both hypothesis appeared as alternative. The findings of the survey were important for creating an educational material within this thesis.
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Home hospice care from the perspective of family members of the incurably ill.
SVOBODOVÁ, Anna
The goal of my thesis I have chosen is to identify the way hospice care is perceived in the Telč region by family members of terminally ill patients. I based my thesis on available specialised literature, current legislation and internet sources dealing with home hospice care. In the first theoretical part, I deal with the definition of hospice care trying to explain the term of general and specialised care that have a common objective, namely dignified and tranquil dying. The second section deals with family in the context of palliative care that plays the key role in the patient care. If the family decides to care for the incurable patient at home, it is vital to support it. Moreover, in this section I define needs of family members summarised in three core topics. Including the care for the patient family that I included to the hospice care as not only the patient suffers from the illness but all his/her family does. That means that each family member needs palliative care. The end of this section deals with mourning of the survivors. The core point is not leaving them alone in their mourning, to have them accompanied by someone in their grief. The third chapter focuses on the role and position of the patient. It changes when a seriously ill human becomes dependent on third party´s help losing his/her capacity to fulfil his/her professional and family role. This enormously affects his/her physical and emotional condition. Moreover, I describe needs on terminally ill people that change when the patient approaches his/her death depending on his/her family and social situation. It changes also during his/her adaptation to adverse diagnoses and forecast and emergence of difficulties and complications. I describe four groups of needs: biological, psychological, social and spiritual. The fourth chapter characterises home hospice care that is described as specialised palliative care provided in the home environment amidst patient´s family and friends. I describe the history of Czech hospice care stating that before the WWII it was quite normal to care for terminally ill patients at home till the end. This trend emerges again in the 90s. I define objectives of the home hospice care and related activities. The fourth chapter includes the description of a multi-disciplinary team and funding of home hospice care. In the fifth chapter, I characterise the home care organisation that try to expand the range of services by including the home palliative care and also deal with the home care history, objectives, delimitation of the scope of activities, agency human resources management and home funding methods. In the sixth chapter, I represent the organisation Sdílení, o.p.s. Telč, services provided by it and basic duties according to the Act No.108/2006 Coll. as well as the mission and objectives of this organisation concentrating on help and support of seriously ill people and their family members/friends in such difficult life situation. The key objective of Sdílení is to preserve maximum possible self-sufficiency and dignity of seriously ill people and support of families that are able to find the courage and force to accompany a terminally ill family member to the end of his/her life. In the practical part of my thesis, I analyse data collected by means of qualitative research based on an inquiry in the form of semi-standardised and open-code processing. Who was included to the basic file were family members of terminally ill patients who were divided to two parts. The first group consists of 3 respondents who were entrusted to the care of the home hospice Sdílení. The second group are 3 respondents entrusted to the Home Care hospice. In the practical part, I describe the process of collection of data, record results of the interview process by the open-code method.
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The Use of the Allowance for Care by the Elderly in 2010-2011
VÍTOVÁ, Jaroslava
This thesis deals with the issue of assessing seniors' needs in relation to the urgency of their admission into a residential care facility. Act No. 108/2006 on social services has significantly changed the way people can obtain necessary assistance. Now it is possible to purchase social services thanks to a social welfare benefit in form of an attendance allowance. There was an assumption that if there is a development in field social work, seniors will remain in their natural environment and therefore the interest in residential care facilities for older people will lower. However, this assumption was not met. The number of senior citizens interested in retirement homes greatly exceeds the capacity of individual facilities. When we assess the needs of seniors related to admission to a residential facility, such need is perceived as an insufficiency. If we get rid of this need or provide support to satisfy it, we achieve safety and security. The extent of such support can vary. The level of help people need determines the amount they receive as an attendance allowance, but it is not the only criterion for preferential admission into a retirement home. Seniors' difficult life situation does not have to be directly related to the level of help they need. If seniors get a lot of points during assessment of their degree of autonomy, self-sufficiency and objective conditions, it does not necessarily imply that they need to be urgently admitted into a residential care facility. This assessment is carried out according to methodological documents devised by the retirement home. The thesis uses a qualitative research strategy; that is, content analysis, case study and qualitative evaluation. Residential care facilities came up with requirements for objective assessment and selection of seniors to be admitted in order to reduce the number of applicants - from several hundred to a group that needs to be admitted urgently. These requirements led to a preparation of methodological materials that describe the whole standard procedure of interaction with people interested in the residential social service. Next, a method of point score system to select the candidates was also established. One of the aims of this thesis was to carry out a qualitative evaluation of methodological documents of a specific residential care facility for older people. Next goal was to assess the seniors' needs before they are admitted to residential care. A content analysis of social investigation records was also conducted. The results showed that the most important needs of seniors are safety and security. Older people submit applications for retirement homes, although they actually do not want to use this service. It is a manifestation of their fear of the future and it has a significant impact on the number of registered applications. On one hand, it is important to regard people as fully-fledged, independent, free and responsible beings at any age. But on the other hand, it is also vital to be aware of various limits and restrictions arising from natural ageing. We usually encounter two extreme opposites when we communicate with older people. Seniors usually overestimate or significantly underestimate themselves in the area of autonomy and self-sufficiency. If these areas were only self-evaluated and objective reality (or senior's surroundings) was not taken into account, the assessment result would be significantly distorted. Quality of needs' assessment and level of social investigation directly depend on the knowledge, skills and abilities of social workers; one of their most important skills is the ability to reflect.
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Strategy for developing collaboration with strong individual donors
Hudeček, Martin ; PROKOP, Petr (advisor) ; KEJKRTOVÁ MĚŘIČKOVÁ, Eva (referee)
The thesis “Strategy for developing collaboration with strong individual donors” examines possibilities of successful collaboration of art projects and strong individual donors. An individual donor is a person with own needs and motives which drive his or her decisions and actions. Motivation is therefore the principal framework of this paper. In the first part, the author focuses on obtaining insight into the theory of motivation, which forms an essential basis for the activation of actions and decisions. The result is a typology which can be applied in the analysis of needs and motives of donors.
A strategic management toolbox and strategic planning process enable active management of motivation. Another part of the thesis examines how strategic management and planning tools allow for studying the needs and addressing them in an effective manner. The author directs his attention mainly at the mission and vision of the organisation, strategic goals and the way of their achievement.
The study of sources of theory and practice culminates with the postulation of hypotheses which the author proceeds to test in practice. The author analyses the motivation of donors for collaborating with art projects; readiness of these projects to negotiate with donors; and their capacity to deploy strategic management tools to successfully negotiate and develop the relationship. The work presents a set of case studies whose purpose is to describe the status quo and test how an agent, who combines knowledge of art projects and donors, influences the process of preparation and negotiation with donors.
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Role of reward and punishment in the upbringing and education of pre-school child with special educational needs
TUČKOVÁ, Olga
This Bachelor´s thesis deals with the problematics of rewards and punishments in educational process in nursery schools for children with special educational needs. The theoretical part focuses on rasining children, various ways of raising, on education, teaching, personal qualities of teachers and their competences. The following two chapters deal with the rewards, punishments and the risks associated with them. The next chapter concentrates on preschool children´s development and preschool education as well as the characteristics of nursery schools. Last chapter focuses on children with special educational needs, special needs education and special education consulting. The practical part deals especially with the research results which were gained through the qualitative research, an in-depth interview consisting of eight questions. The questions were answered by six respondents, the pedagogical workers in nursery schools for children with special educational needs in České Budějovice. The aim of this Bachelor´s thesis is to find out which rewards and punishments are used in the educational process in nursery schools for children with special educational needs, what are their effects, how often they are used and the reasons why they are used. The research shows that almost the only and the most used reward is a praise and the most used punishments are mainly an oral rebuke or the restriction of some activities for a certain period of time until the child realizes their bad behaviour. Children are pleased and are positively motivated when they are praised but soon they forget about it. Rebukes are also not effective from the same reason. However, these are common educational ways used by everybody pedagogical worker all the time. Application of other educational ways of rewards and punishments are very limited in nursery schools and another problem might also be the way of raising the child in the family itself. The children are mostly used to a completely different approach to their behaviour in their family than in the nursery school. The pedagogical workers use the mentioned rewards and punishments in the nursery school daily and most of the teachers regard them as essential. This Bachelor´s thesis might be benefitial for the pedagogical workers who raise and educate children in the nursery schools for children with special educational needs and for students who deal with these issues.
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The Everyday Ethics of Social Workers in Expectations of the Clients
DVOŘÁKOVÁ, Julie
This Bachelor thesis deals with the everyday ethics of social workers in the expectations of the clients. The theoretical part is based on the knowledge obtained from the literature and electronic resources, which write about current society, ethics, social work, social worker, client of social services. quality of social work, economization, legislation, and stress in social work, supervision, role of the social worker, expectations by social workers, relationship between a social worker and client etc. The goal of this work is to find out what are the expectations of the clients of social services in relation to social workers and at the same time to gain awareness about how social workers deal with these expectations on a daily basis. Set out the four research questions: Which ideas do clients have about the social worker profession? What do most clients expect from a social worker? How do social workers perceive ethics in their work? How can stress affect the work of social workers? For obtaining the data qualitative research was chosen. Specifically the techniques were used semi-controlled interview with open and closed questions with active listening technique and participatory observation technique. Research probe consists of accidentally selected social workers and clients of social services in the district of Pisek. For the purpose of research was addressed 22 social workers and 18 clients of social organizations and institutions. The data was analyzed using the methods of scoring. The empirical part will focus on the expectations of the clients of social workers.. The results shows that the expectations of the clients are very diverse, according to the social services, which they require. For example the six clients expect that the social worker can advise them with the resolution of their situation. Clients of social services require a suitable job or increase social benefits by workers at the Office. Almost all users of residential services require space and time for the interview. The results also shows that the all social workers perceive ethics during their work. Stress in difficult situations was felt by 10 social workers interviewed, mostly in a troubled situations. In my opinion there is a need for more and better way of informing the public about the profession of a social worker. When the public will know what they can expect by social workers, then social workers may recieve a feedback. The task of this work is not to submit clear explanations examined by the facts, but rather to convey readers a preview of everyday ethics in the practice of social workers and to find out what clients expect the most from social workers. This thesis work I would like to contribute to the larger preview on the issue. At the same time I would like to penetrate to the mutual relationship between social worker and client. This work could serve as study material for students and staff of social work. The thesis could also serve as a basis for further research about the issue.
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The demanding character of Nursing Care in specialized pulmonary sanaroria
KLEINOVÁ, Irena
Pulmonary sanatoriums are facilities where efficient and useful therapy for patients suffering from respiratory diseases is provided. They use treatments including the methods of climatotherapy, drinking cures or inhalation therapies. Diseases such as asthma bronchiale, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, various forms of pneumonia, lung cancer and also tuberculosis are cured here. Just the tuberculosis treatment regimen is so specific that the research part of this thesis is devoted mainly to this phenomenon. Currently, tuberculosis represents a large medical problem in our country. Although the number of cases in the last decade has decreased, today it remains a serious medical and social problem with a huge economic effect on the entire society. The epidemiological situation is deteriorating on the global scale. The main causes of this deterioration are AIDS, the influx of refugees and immigrants from various risky countries, an increase in adherence to drug abuse and failure to keep to treatment measures. According to the WHO, two billion people are infected with tuberculosis globally. The urgency of this topic is seen in the fact that despite all measures, over 3 million people die of this disease globally and 90% of this number die in developing countries. This thesis is focused on the importance of pulmonary sanatoriums and also on the mapping of intensity of nursing care in particular pulmonary sanatoriums. To a great extent, the thesis deals with the issue of the specific needs of patients and the method of providing nursing care. The thesis describes individual facilities in the Czech Republic and their importance. It also deals with the specifics of nursing care for individual pulmonary diseases and goes into detail about provision of care at isolated units for patients with tuberculosis. It also deals with the holistic approach to the patient and multicultural nursing. A great part of the thesis is devoted to the needs of patients, and changes in their role in the sanatorium. The objective of this master´s thesis was to outline the difficulty of nursing care in specialized pulmonary sanatoriums and find the specific needs of patients in these facilities. Another objective was to discover the role of the nurse in provision of care and outline differences between individual facilities. All these objectives have been performed. Four research questions were set at the beginning of the research. The first research question dealt with how nursing care in pulmonary facilities is provided. The second research question was focused on finding the specific needs of patients in these facilities. The third research question dealt with the role of the nurse in providing care for patients in specialized pulmonary sanatoriums. And the last research question focused on differences between the individual sanatoriums. The practical part of the thesis contains the results of qualitative research gathered on the basis of a semi-structured interview. Final interviews were recorded, transcribed and subsequently processed by the technique of open coding. The research file consisted of 6 nurses working in pulmonary sanatoriums and 5 patients hospitalized with tuberculosis. Based on the information acquired, the patients perceive isolation units as a very simple and depressing place, where they miss contacts with their closest. The stay in the isolation unit is a shock for them. Foreigners complain of the language barrier. Nurses regard the nursing care as very demanding. They must care for patients with various diagnoses and provide multicultural care with respect to the national and cultural specifics of patients. Based on the results found, an information brochure was created, and this can help as a source of information for hospitalized patients in sanatoriums. Furthermore, the results of this thesis will be presented to individual sanatoriums for the purpose of making changes related to their equipment.
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Specifics of nursing care for members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church
VOTRUBOVÁ, Veronika
Seventh Day Adventist Church was established in the United States in the 19th century and belongs among the Protestant churches. Adventists are characterized by the fact that they expect the second coming of Jesus Christ and hold Saturday holy for celebration of God. The theoretical part deals with the definition of multicultural nursing, nursing and describes the nursing process. It is focused on nursing models Leininger and Giger with Davidhizar. Another part of the theoretical work deals with religion, spirituality spiritual needs of patients and clients. The last part focuses on the Seventh Day Adventist Church. There is information about their history, doctrine and communities, basic doctrinal pronouncements, their particularities such as baptism, which is done in adulthood, the Lord's Supper and principles of Christian life. Adventists worship on Saturday; they are not allowed to work and must devote the whole day to God. The work also describes the activities of the Church and the related humanitarian organization ADRA. Adventists keep to a healthy lifestyle and have a medical program called the NewStart. The goal of the diploma thesis was to find out the specifics of nursing care for members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, to map out specific attitudes towards health among members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and to map opinion of nurses on the importance of multicultural nursing for their work. Towards these goals, five research questions had been established: 1. Do members of the Seventh-day Adventist have specific needs in nursing care? 2. How do members of the Seventh-day Adventist perceive medical personnel attitudes? 3. Do members of the Seventh-day Adventist have specific spiritual needs? 4. Do members of the Seventh-day Adventist lead a specific lifestyle? 5. Do nurses know the importance of multicultural nursing in practice? To fulfill the research objectives and to answer research questions, qualitative research was used. The survey was carried out through semi-structured interview with members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and general nurses. Interviews with members of the SDA were held in the Gathering of Seventh Day Adventist Church in Benešov and the snowball technique was used to find further respondents. Interviews with general nurses were conducted in two hospitals in internal and surgical wards. The Interviews were attended by 10 members of the SDA and 10 nurses. The qualitative survey found that members of the SDA church have no specifics in nursing care. Only some members, who are vegetarians, require a vegetarian diet in hospitals. In a hospital setting, they have no problem with praying and easily adapt to the surroundings, because they do not want to draw attention to themselves. They have no problem with vaccination, transplantation, receiving transfusions or other diagnostic and medical procedures. Most members perceive health professionals positively, but there were two who have experience with disdain and misunderstanding of their faith by them. Further research shows that Adventists have specifics in death care and diet. SDA has a health reform, which includes the NewStart. The Adventist Church does not recommend eating meat and bans alcohol, tobacco and narcotics. Nurses see major importance of multicultural nursing in avoiding conflict with a client that could arise from ignorance of their religion. Another point is the possibility to better understand the client's behavior and the ability to empathize with their feelings. Because of the knowledge of multicultural care, nurses are able to meet the needs of clients and provide them with quality nursing care. On the basis of the research, standard nursing procedures for members of the SDA and informational material for nurses to facilitate the provision of particular care to members of the SDA have been developed.
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