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Colostomy as a nursing problem
PÓLOVÁ, Markéta
This bachelor thesis deals with the colostomy-nursing issue. Colostomy means an artificial opening the colon through the abdominal wall and it is followed by a big effect to a life of a patient. Older patients undergo colostomy more and more often (Šváb et al., 2008). The aim of this bachelor thesis is to find out the specificity of a nursing care for patients with a colostomy. For this aim was established these exploratory questions: What expertise do nurses have? What is a specificity of a nursing care for patients with a colostomy? For the implementation of the empirical part of this bachelor thesis, we chose qualitative research. The data collection was made by a semi-structured interview with nurses and stoma care nurses. There were eight nurses and two stoma care nurses in the research group. All of them work at the Department of Surgery. The interview was recorded and afterward literally transcribed. All the obtained information were coded and categorized. This research was taken during February and March 2018. As the interview shows, all the nurses have some knowledge about colostomy care and all of them treat colostomy. The research also shows that nurses have a deficit to some extent. Some of the nurses were not sure with their answers. It was found out that most of the nurses refer colostomy patients to stoma care nurses. The outcomes of the research will be realized in a seminar designed for nurses and should help to their improvement in this issue. We have better chance to avoid complication when nurses are well informed how to use all the equipment in a good way and when they know how to treat colostomy patients.

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