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Client{\crq}s motivation {--} a part of everyday nursing activities
KREJČOVÁ, Martina
If clients are to be motivated, they have to be made desirous of achieving an objective, confident of their abilities, and capable of imagining the possibilities opened up to them after the objective is accomplished. This Bachelor paper aims to find out how the clients of senior-citizen facilities are motivated for self-care. Degenerative changes encountered in seniors often deteriorate their self-care performance. The older the people get, the more difficult it seems for them to find reasons why they should keep themselves active. A nurse, therefore, has to encourage in them the proper attitude through which the seniors will be able to maintain or even improve their level of self-reliance. This paper is to map the motivation mechanisms at work in the clients of senior-citizen facilities operating in the Region of South Bohemia and to examine the way in which the nurses motivate the clients for self-care and self-reliance. The data were generated through a qualitative survey of two different non-standardized types of interviews. The first type of interview was carried out with nurses working at the nursing homes at Kaplice, Máj and a senior-citizen facility of the Staroměstská Center of Social Services. The second type of interview was conducted with randomly selected clients of the facilities. The survey revealed the way in which the nurses motivated the clients for self-care, as well as the motives, both personal and factual, behind such efforts encountered in the clients. Moreover, the nurses` attitudes were investigated about how the nursing process could be used to motivate the clients for self-care, and the clients` needs were examined as they related to the self-care motivation induced by the nursing process. Conclusions of the paper can provide a source of information for both managers of the facilities and the nurses delivering the care. Future investigation should seek a method in which the nursing process can better motivate the clients for self-care, and possibly it should focus on the nursing documentation. Nurses providing care at the senior-citizen facilities strive to motivate the clients to resume their self-assistance capabilities and keep the capabilities workable. The clients appreciate their efforts.
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