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A healthcare assistant as a member of the nursing team
DUŠKOVÁ, Jitka
The Bachelor thesis deals with the profession of a healthcare assistant and acceptance of a relatively new healthcare staff category to a nursing team. The field of study of healthcare assistant has substituted the previous field of General Nurse at secondary medical schools within the changes of the nurse education conception. This change has shifted the field of general nurse to the tertiary level. The profession of a healthcare assistant should not be a marginalized part of a nursing team. The multilevel system of nursing care provision belongs to new trends in nursing and requires a nursing team consisting of staff of various qualification levels. Competences of a healthcare assistant are subordinated to nurses; assistants provide nursing care under supervision of a physician or a general nurse. They are entitled to performing a narrower range of activities mostly aimed at the basic nursing care. This new healthcare profession is becoming an important element and it is necessary to accept a healthcare assistant as a full-valued nursing team member. The theoretical part of the Bachelor Thesis deals with development of nursing and nursing education. It also contains information related to the healthcare assistant profession. The aim of the practical part was to find out whether general nurses are interested in including a healthcare assistant into their nursing teams and whether they know the competences of healthcare assistants. A quantitative research method in the form of a questionnaire was used to obtain results of the research. The questionnaires were designed for general nurses and distributed in the Central Military Hospital in Prague at the departments where healthcare assistants worked. The research results were presented in graphic form and evaluated in final discussion. The Thesis may be used for wider information on and closer insight into the issue, both for students and general nurses as well as nurse managers.

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