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Infertility experience: retrospective biographical reconstruction of now fertile women
Ulrichová, Eva ; Hájek, Martin (advisor) ; Spalová, Barbora (referee)
This master's thesis focuses on the retrospective biographical interviews with three now fertile women who as narrators retrospectively create their identities during the experience with the diagnosis and treatment of infertility. I also explored how the medical and social institution could lead to a change of identity of female infertility. This master's thesis is based on theory of Erving Goffman about patients in total institution: this theory supports the idea that total (medical) institution destroys the patient's original identity and then constructs new identity. The major result of this master's thesis found four different changes in woman's identity during the experience of infertility: identity of implicitly fertile woman and potential mother, denial of identity and the process of accepting a new identity, identity of infertile woman and patient's identity, and mother's identity. The changes of woman's identity are based on diagnostic phase. Therefore I decided to separate them into four various period in this research: pre-diagnostic, diagnostic, post-diagnostic and contra-diagnostic. I also found a difference between Goffman's theory and my results: Based on my research I concluded that the construction of identity of infertile women in the diagnostics and treatment of infertility is...
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Program of continual health care quality improvement in a private clinic in Ukraine
Shvets, Anna ; Lešetický, Ondřej (advisor) ; Pažitný, Peter (referee)
The aim of this master s thesis is to establish continual program of health care quality improvement in a private multi-specialty medical facility Nebolejka based in Ukrainian city Kharkov. Thesis is divided into several parts. Theoretical part is focused on quality examination from the healthcare system point of view, deals with the analyses of Ukrainian healthcare system actual state. Practical part is focused on health care quali-ty evaluation in a private clinic Nebolejka. With a use of patient satisfaction survey a program of health care quality improvement was established. Its effectiveness was also verified via repeated patient satisfaction survey in short- term time period. This thesis is primarily useful for medical facility Nebolejka, because improvement of health care quality not surprisingly constitute to better competitive market position.
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Evaluation of life satisfaction of pensioners (healthcare institutions,homecare agencies, retirement houses)
FUJDLOVÁ, Radka
Theoretical concepts: The central topic of my thesis is the life satisfaction of the elderly, although this concept is perceived very subjectively. Moreover, it varies even in one person at different life stages and it depends on various circumstances and events that accompany people on their life journeys. However, experiencing satisfaction always requires the saturation of one's needs, physical ones as well as mental, social and spiritual ones. Most of the times, one is able to provide for their needs, or at least affect them, through their activities and their will, but the older ones grows, the more one becomes dependent on others in this respect. This task is usually taken in part by one's family members who are willing to help and take care of their close relative, but there also arise situations where one has to entrust themselves into the hands of health professionals, especially nurses. The nurses' tasks do not just include staffing surgeries, but it is necessary for them to pay attention to the individual needs of their clients. Importance of both these components of care is entirely equivalent, because treatment success depends largely on the psychological state, defined by the satisfaction of the clients' life needs, and, on the other hand, the measure a patients' well-being is strongly influenced by the state of their health depending on successful treatment. Professional care that their clients receive is often linked to the placement of the elderly in some health institutions; possibly there may be a situation when an elderly person stays in their home and receives care from field medical staff for only a few hours a day. In any case, the objective of such care, through whatever methods it is provided, should be to achieve the highest possible degree of satisfaction of elderly individuals. Objectives of the thesis: To find out about subjective evaluation of life satisfaction of the elderly depending on their age To find out about subjective evaluation of life satisfaction of the elderly depending on their sex To find out about subjective evaluation of life satisfaction of the elderly depending on institution type Hypotheses: H1: Men are more satisfied than women H2: Satisfaction of the elderly decreases as they grow older H3: The most satisfied are the elderly who use the services of ADP Methods: The method of quantitative research was used in the practical part. For this purpose, the reduced SQUALA standardized questionnaire was used. It had been transferred to interview form due to the age of the target group of the elderly. The obtained data was processed with Microsoft Office Excel and some calculations were made with the Statistica programme. Answers from one hundred respondents were obtained as part of the survey; the respondents came from South Bohemia, particularly from the Český Krumlov and České Budějovice regions. Three types of health care institutions were contacted: a home care agency, retirement homes and hospital aftercare wards. Fifteen elderly persons were obtained for cooperation in the home care agency, 39 persons in retirement homes and 46 persons in hospitals. Results: The results of the survey show that satisfaction of the elderly is most affected by the type of health institution used, i.e. by the environment in which they are provided with health care. Definitely the most satisfied are the people who use the services of the home care agency. On the other hand, age or sex did not play a significant role when evaluating life satisfaction. Conclusion: The importance of this thesis may lie mostly in the opportunity to use the acquired knowledge, regarding the satisfaction of the elderly and the factors that influence this satisfaction, to improve the quality of care provided by nurses and other health staff.
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The role of the medical operations center, a provider of emergency medical services
JIRKŮ, Tomáš
Bachelor's thesis deals with the medical operating center and its activities. A lot of people have no idea what a medical operating centre actually is. My knowledge about it was also scarce before the beginning of my studies. Therefore I would like to outline the problems, tasks and also the demanding character of the work of operators. That is why this thesis is aimed at examining the tasks of the medical operating centre. Everybody probably knows the term medical rescue service and imagines immediately a yellow vehicle with reflective strips and blue lights. Hardly anybody realizes, however, that the medical rescue service needs the medical operating centre to be functional. It may be also called a control centre. This centre is an inseparable part of the medical service and also of the integrated rescue system. Specialized medical workers, called operators or controllers, are employed here. These workers, among others, receive continuously emergency calls, evaluate them and pass them on to exit groups, and, last but not least, assist the caller with giving first aid. All these problems are the subject of the theoretical part of the thesis. Two research issues were determined for the purpose of the research part of the thesis. The first one deals with all tasks ordered by legislation being used by the operating centre and the second research issue is aimed at the problems of urgent basic life support assisted by phone, namely if this basic life support assisted by phone is utilized always when unconsciousness is indicated. These issues were dealt with by means of the qualitative research method consisting in the secondary data analysis. The research set constituted the regional operating centre of the South Moravian Region. Specifically, documentation of emergency medical services was used operator record and audio record of emergency call. This documentation is a part of each emergency call. By means of the secondary analysis the data from 20 emergency calls were obtained. Emergency calls were chosen by simple random choice. The sample of these 20 emergency calls was chosen from the period of the year 2014. Because of protection of personal data no names are given in the thesis, only the initials. For the same reason no actual addresses are used in the research. In the discussion there are given all tasks ordered by legislation and recommended procedures from professional sources. This information is subsequently compared with the obtained data. The results in the case of the first research issue indicated that some tasks ordered by legislation are not used too often. Some tasks within the framework of the small sample being examined are not used at all and, on the contrary, they are used in the receiving of each emergency call. The tasks that were not used at all were three altogether. The results in the case of the second research issue demonstrated that indication of unconsciousness is not always necessarily the reason for using urgent basic life support assisted by phone. It is important that also other aspects are taken into account, not only consciousness of the patient. Of ten emergency calls concerning unconsciousness being examined this urgent basic life support assisted by phone was used in five of them. It was found out that utilization of the medical operations center tasks is individual in each emergency call. From the point of view of the total activity of the centre it could be declared, however, that the centre uses most of the tasks ordered by legislation. This bachelor's thesis can be used as a material extending the knowledge of both non-professional public and medical personnel concerning the activities of medical operating centre. It can be a stepping stone for further research concerning medical operations center.
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