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Mission, calling, service and their place in nursing
JEHLÍKOVÁ, Aneta
This diploma thesis is concerned with defining the terms of mission, calling, service, and searching for connections between them and nursing. In the theoretical part, we try to search for these terms and determine their meanings through historical and current literature. The empirical part of the thesis is based on qualitative research. Semi structured interviews were conducted with six medical high school students of the practical nurse program, with five university students of the general nurse program, with general nurses that were divided into two groups: those who had finished the medical school before 2004, and those who were studying the medical high school as medical assistants. The last groups for interviews were members of the Sisters of Mercy congregation of St. Borromeo. The main aim of the thesis is to find out how terms of mission, calling, and service are imagined by nurses, how these terms manifest themselves in today's nursing, and how actual they are in nursing today. Answers to these research questions arise from experience of general nurses, as well as students, and reflect their views on the research terms of mission, calling, and service. Empirical inquiry reveals that general nurses and students have a good idea of what terms of mission, calling, and service are. Among descriptions of these terms, the answers of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo are the most differentiated. General nurses divert from the profession as defined by Florence Nightingale, and they still attribute nurses the same virtues as she was imagining. Today, in nursing, the researched terms mission, calling, and service appear at least in the meaning we elaborate on here and have an archaic impression. Instead of these terms, words such as empathy or compassion are being used in today's nursing, and these words are attributed to a flawless general nurse by students and general nurses. General nurses and students agree that the researched terms perish in today's nursing, yet they still perceive that a general nurse should consider her profession as a mission, and all but three informants consider their current or future profession as a mission.
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Ruben Gallego in his autobiographical prose White on Black
Klánová, Kateřina ; Hlaváček, Antonín (advisor) ; Hříbková, Radka (referee)
The life of Russian writer David Ruben Gonzales Gallego. The Man Booker Prize in 2003. Analysis of autobiographical prose White on Black, character of Ruben Gallego in the novel. Analysis of work in terms of genre, language resources, composition, style, theme and meaning. Examining the influence of current modern language to the author's style. Adoption of the work and the reason the writer's popularity. Testimonials and personal evaluation.
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The Role of Empathy in Ethical Behaviour
Novák, Lukáš ; Matějek, Jaromír (advisor) ; Ovečka, Libor (referee)
More than two hundred years ago David Hume together with his fellow philosopher Adam Smith posited, that ethical behaviour arises from so called: "moral sense". In the other words, they share the same idea, that passions are principle evoking and guiding human behaviour. Hume claim: "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions" (…). It is possible that this statement - among others - woke up from the 'dogmatic dream' one of the greatest philosophers of all time - Immanuel Kant, who propose, - contrary to Hume - that reason but not necessary passions can determinate human actions. In the question of what rule the passions in ethics have, it seems to be helpful to use the knowledge which follows from recent science. During this thesis we will use methods such as: comparison, analysis and synthesis. Main aim of this thesis will be to deal with the following question: what relationship can be observed between empathy, "moral sense" and ethical behaviour in perspective of recent science. This enquiry will therefore try to deal with the old question: what the the relationship between reason, passions and ethical behaviour is.
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Emotions and utility maximization
Abraham, Diya Elizabeth
The goal of this thesis is to examine the role of emotion as it pertains to the utility maximization problem and make an argument for incorporating emotion into economic models of decision-making. It further aims to demonstrate by means of a social experiment how specific emotions influence intertemporal judgment. The results from the experiment reveal that in line with previously documented findings, incidental sadness increases the level of economic impatience. However contrary to theoretical predictions, the prosocial emotion of compassion cannot be used as a tool to reduce economic impatience. In fact there is evidence to indicate that compassion, in some situations, is not reliably different from sadness in terms of its influence on economic impatience and can therefore be detrimental to economic wellbeing.
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The Role of Empathy in Ethical Behaviour
Novák, Lukáš ; Matějek, Jaromír (advisor) ; Ovečka, Libor (referee)
More than two hundred years ago David Hume together with his fellow philosopher Adam Smith posited, that ethical behaviour arises from so called: "moral sense". In the other words, they share the same idea, that passions are principle evoking and guiding human behaviour. Hume claim: "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions" (…). It is possible that this statement - among others - woke up from the 'dogmatic dream' one of the greatest philosophers of all time - Immanuel Kant, who propose, - contrary to Hume - that reason but not necessary passions can determinate human actions. In the question of what rule the passions in ethics have, it seems to be helpful to use the knowledge which follows from recent science. During this thesis we will use methods such as: comparison, analysis and synthesis. Main aim of this thesis will be to deal with the following question: what relationship can be observed between empathy, "moral sense" and ethical behaviour in perspective of recent science. This enquiry will therefore try to deal with the old question: what the the relationship between reason, passions and ethical behaviour is.
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Compassion in nursing
POSPÍŠILOVÁ, Vladimíra
Modern Nursing is characterized by growing expert and technical perfection, but also by weakening compassion and its role in nursing. Together with technical development, humanism in nursing slowly gains more and more importance. The bachelor thesis named "Compassion in nursing" is of theoretical character and its aim is to analyse the issue of compassion in nursing and point to its meaning. The thesis is conceived as an analytical study with a subsequent processing of interpretative text. In relation to text analysis the following questions have been submitted: How is compassion in nursing reflected? What does the advantage of compassion in nursing rest in? The interpretative analysis of individual sources has proven that empathy and compassion are important components as the basic pressumptions of humanization in nursing. In reality, however, nursing is often influenced by lack of empathy and compassion from the medical staff´s side. Compassion in nursing is thus reflected unsatisfactorily due to the nurses´ insufficient preparation, and low support in organization and management of healthcare facilities. Compassion is a significant component of professional nursing, it takes a positive part in provided healthcare, it increases its quality and patients´ comfort. The advantages of compassion on nursing is completely obvious, and unreplaceable by anything. In addition its need will keep growing with the development of informational and communicational technologies, as healthcare electronization will prove itself in nursing dehumanization. That will have to be faced necessarily via compassion deepening, creating responding healthcare systems, systematic teaching of compassion, and compassionate care evaluation and remuneration from the management´s side. In this context, improving nursing staff´s knowledge and skills in psychology and psychotherapy, developing personal requirements and strengthening their communication including active listening will be necessary.
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To the Philosophical Relation of Compassion and Liberty
Sváčková, Kateřina ; Novák, Aleš (advisor) ; Marek, Jakub (referee)
This thesis deals with two phenomena, compassion and freedom, specifically the concept in the philosophy of A. Schopenhauer and J.-J. Rousseau. We believe that these two themes are essential points of the two philosophical systems. Despite the different contexts, concepts and definitions of the terms, compassion for both philosophers represents a kind of positive ability of human beings (counterweight of the necessary present egoism) from which social virtues and interpersonal relationships arise. Freedom in its largest scale is then the objective of every human being, whether the concept of freedom means anything: positive (possibility of arbitrariness in its natural state, the relative freedom of action) or negative definition of freedom (absence of causality or any form of dependence). The primary objective of this thesis is to outline the possible relations between the two phenomena. It seems that the ability of compassion may potentially be limiting certain forms of human freedom, though such a form of freedom may turn out to be insufficient. It turns out, however, that by using the ability of compassion it is possible to reach the most desirable and liberating freedom.
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Ruben Gallego in his autobiographical prose White on Black
Klánová, Kateřina ; Hlaváček, Antonín (advisor) ; Hříbková, Radka (referee)
The life of Russian writer David Ruben Gonzales Gallego. The Man Booker Prize in 2003. Analysis of autobiographical prose White on Black, character of Ruben Gallego in the novel. Analysis of work in terms of genre, language resources, composition, style, theme and meaning. Examining the influence of current modern language to the author's style. Adoption of the work and the reason the writer's popularity. Testimonials and personal evaluation.
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