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The specifics of nursing care of a patient with an inserted PICC - awareness of nurses
 Vaňková, Kateřina ; Hromádková, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Tomová, Šárka (referee)
This bachelor's thesis discusses the treatment of PICC catheters. The theoretical part of the thesis provides comprehensive information about the PICC catheter and about the specifics of care for patients with an inserted PICC. The thesis mainly focuses on the treatment of this access under aseptic conditions in order to prevent catheter infection, where the correct procedure of the nurse is important. At the same time, the goal is for the provided information to agree with the current recommendations of national and international companies involved in creating educational resources to treat long-term vascular accesses. The aim of the empirical part of this bachelor's thesis is to obtain information about nurses' knowledge on treating PICC catheters through quantitative research. Data collection was conducted in a selected hospital using self-designed questionnaires. The questionnaire consists of 25 questions, of which 14 questions are used to verify knowledge of the given topic. 150 questionnaires were distributed and 109 questionnaires were returned for analysis. Based on the results of the questionnaire, a simple manual with pictograms was created and is available at the end of the thesis. This manual is designed to help nurses who may not regularly encounter PICC catheters, guiding them in...
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The observance of nursing processes during the care of vascular inputs focusing on the prevention of catheter infections.
 TŘEŠNIČKOVÁ, Nikola
This bachelor's thesis on the topic ,,The observance of nursing processes during the care of vascular inputs focusing on the prevention of catheter infections" consists of a theoretical and a research part. The theoretical part focuses on vascular access in general and on individual peripheral and central catheters. Firstly, it provides information on nursing care for vascular access. The thesis also deals with infections associated with health care. And finally, the work informs about catheter infections, sepsis and septic shock. The research part was processed in the formo f qualitative research. The aim was to find out how nurses following nursing processes during the care of vascular inputs with a focus on the prevention of catheter infections. Five research questions were identified for this purpose. Qualitative data collection was realized by semi-structured interviews and covert observation. The research group consisted of ten nurses working in internal departments. The selection of informants was intentional and carried out using the snowball method. The results show that nurses have experience in nursing care of peripheral venous catheters rather than central venous catheters. The results also show that nurses have theoretical knowledge of the specifics of nursing care. However, based on observations, it was found that some nurses do not follow the specifics of nursing care. The results of bachelor's thesis research can be beneficial for all nurses across all departments. But they can be also used as information materiál for medical students.
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