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Spiritual needs of patients through the eyes of nurses at departments of aftercare and long-term care.
JEHLÍKOVÁ, Aneta
The theoretical part of this bachelor thesis is primarily concerned with topics of spiritual needs and spiritual care. The first chapter inquires into the holistic concept and the needs of people with illnesses. What is the need and what are the main characteristics of particular basic needs is described there. The second chapter engages in the spiritual care, but there are also other terms mentioned; the pastoral care or the hospital chaplain, for instance. The past of the spiritual care is not omitted either, as it reaches into the remote history. The last chapter is concerned with departments of aftercare and longterm care and these terms are explained there. Information about nurses' work at such departments is provided, as well. The research part of the thesis addresses the research aim that is defined in this way: To learn how nurses at departments of consecutive and long-term care perceive the idea of spiritual need, if they recognize particular spiritual needs and how they react to them. To learn the overall spiritual needs standard and organization at individual departments. Methodologically, because of the research aim, qualitative research design has been chosen and the data has been collected through semi-structured interviews, individually with respondents. The research uncovered that nurses have a basic awareness of spiritual care and spiritual needs but they still miss some knowledge. For example, many nurses believe that spiritual care serves only to believing patients. Another finding reveals that nurses are able to rightly react on spiritual needs of the patient and they agree on the process of spiritual needs' fulfilment. The thesis offers a complex insight into nurses' view of spiritual care. The output of the thesis is an information material for nurses and patients.
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Spiritual needs of patients from the nurses' point of view
Rosypalová, Marta ; Hlaváčová, Marie (advisor) ; Tomová, Šárka (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with spiritual needs of patients and the importance of satisfying those needs. The object of the thesis was to investigate the nurses' awareness of the topic and their relationship towards this issue. The thesis follows the two traditional lines - theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part firstly deals with needs in nursing generally and clarifies the basic concepts such as spirituality, religion, faith, atheism and agnosticism. Further on the notion of spiritual need is specified in more detail along with the possibilities of its satisfaction. Spiritual care of patients is explained from different perspectives of various denominations and religions. The empirical part consists of research, where by means of questionnaires the nurses' awareness and their attitudes towards the spiritual needs and their fulfilling were investigated.
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Spirituality in nursing
Rybová, Jarmila ; Bratová, Andrea (advisor) ; Nikodemová, Hana (referee)
Starting points: A positive attitude towards the provision of spiritual needs leads to better care and to the internal readiness of nurses to meet the spiritual needs of patients. The mere provision and acceptance of spiritual needs for patients, their relatives and colleagues leads to greater quality, satisfaction, comprehensive and holistic provision of nursing care. Objectives: The aim of the investigation was to map spirituality in nursing. Assessment of the need for faith, belief and significance. Finding out the importance of spirituality / belief in the healing process. Verification of the influence of the community or community as support for nurses and the importance of the information provided about spirituality from patients in the provision of health care. File and methods: Own investigation of spirituality in nursing through a standardized FICA questionnaire. The selection of respondents was intentional. The survey itself was carried out at the Motol University Hospital in Prague. A total of 150 paper questionnaires were distributed. There were 59 correctly completed and acceptable paper questionnaires, 18 questionnaires were collected online. There were 77 nurses in the group, of which 90.91% were women (n = 70) and 9.01% were men (n = 7). The average age was M = 41.54 years. The...
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Providing spiritual care in the intensive care unit
Čermáková, Věra ; Mellanová, Alena (advisor) ; Dynáková, Šárka (referee)
The rise in modern nursing and nursing processes using holistic philosophies. When providing care it should be taken into account the biological, psychlogical, social, but also the spiritual needs of patients. Caring for spiritual needs is an integral part of comprehensive care. Providing spiritual care and psychological support are among the main activities of hospital chaplains. Their work is of great importance in overcoming all the difficulties that illness brings. They are part of a multidisciplinary collaboration in the treatment of patients without a distinct faith. The aim of the thesis is to find out the level of awareness of patients in the sphere of spiritual care, their expectations and their contribution. For the thesis I chose to collect data from a hospital through quantitative research using an anonymous questionnaire. The target group of my research will be 100 patients who are hospitalised in an intensive care unit with a minimum hospitala stay of 7 days. The goal of the work was fulfilled. The result of the research was confirmation that the spiritual care provided was reflected in their psychological state and also fulfilled the patients expectations. In the conclusion of my thesis I recommended some ways in which to improve the quality of care in the area of spiritual needs....
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Spiritual needs of patients from the nurses' point of view
Rosypalová, Marta ; Hlaváčová, Marie (advisor) ; Tomová, Šárka (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with spiritual needs of patients and the importance of satisfying those needs. The object of the thesis was to investigate the nurses' awareness of the topic and their relationship towards this issue. The thesis follows the two traditional lines - theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part firstly deals with needs in nursing generally and clarifies the basic concepts such as spirituality, religion, faith, atheism and agnosticism. Further on the notion of spiritual need is specified in more detail along with the possibilities of its satisfaction. Spiritual care of patients is explained from different perspectives of various denominations and religions. The empirical part consists of research, where by means of questionnaires the nurses' awareness and their attitudes towards the spiritual needs and their fulfilling were investigated.
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Health and desease - the point of selected churches in Czech Republic
SMRŽOVÁ, Lucie
The aim of the thesis is to find out the view of the spiritual leaders of the chosen Churches in the Czech Republic about the health and illness. Even though the Czech Republic is one of the most secularised countries in the world, Christianity is the mostly represented religion in here. Therefore, intentionally there were chosen three Christian Churches for the thesis, to discuss their attitudes towards the health and illness and compare their eventual differences. The respondents were five representatives from each of the following Churches Roman Catholic Church, Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, and Czechoslovak Hussite Church. The study is based on qualitative interviews and respondents were chosen from the spiritual leaders.
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Spiritual service in the home for the elderly in Jindřichův Hradec
HOUSEROVÁ, Lucie
The spiritual care in all Elderly Houses is perceived as a part of total care of clients. Contemporary holistic interpretation distinguish biological, psychological, social and spiritual dimension of human person. All these spheres form a complex, are inseparable and influence each other. The duties of care of clients are characterized not only as a care of biological needs but also as a help in solving social, psychological needs and an assistance in filling of the spiritual needs. The spiritual needs of each person and it would be a failure to think, that the spiritual needs are only for believer human people. The rate of satisfying these needs is changing during client´s life and present foreign researches indicate, that the need of spiritual is increased in old age and in illness. The clients can this spiritual care seek out when they need stimulation in exacting part of their life, they want to talk about spiritual or existential topics or when they are interested in various churches. In some countries is already common that the hospital employs own priest or a hospital chaplain. In our republic the installation of hospital chaplain is also started to discuss, even some hospitals employ the chaplains. The target of this bachelor´s work is to map the offer of spiritual care in Elderly House in Jindřichův Hradec, if these services are used there and which the most frequent spiritual services the clients use. Work found out which the spiritual services are interested and how many clients use them. And also from the clergyman´s side indicated which the spiritual services are offered to the clients and from the side of the social worker found out that the majority of clients, who are coming to the Elderly House, is informed, that the spiritual services are running there and he or she can use them. The hypotheses were verified by quantity study. In order to find patient´s interest of satisfying their spiritual needs was used the method of controlled talk and the same method was used in the case of talk with the clergyman and the social worker.
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Integrating spiritual and religious needs in the nursing process in Tábor hospital corp.
PETERKOVÁ, Blanka
During an illness, spiritual and pastoral needs play an important role, although their saturation is not yet accorded such importance as is the case in meeting biological, psychological or social needs. The first objective of the work was to determine how spiritual and pastoral care is integrated into the nursing process at the wards of Nemocnice Tábor, a. s. (Tábor Hospital). The second objective was to determine the satisfaction of clients/patients with the provision of such care. A qualitative research study was conducted based on semi-standardized interviews with nurses and clients of Tábor Hospital, and also with the clergymen and pastoral assistants who provide spiritual care in the hospital. The research sample consisted of 10 ward nurses, 10 hospitalized clients, 2 hospital chaplains and 2 pastoral assistants. The investigation revealed that the spiritual and pastoral care is incorporated in Tábor Hospital in the form of religious services, providing sacraments, conversations of clergymen and pastoral assistants with clients. Nurses are involved rather in the emotional support of clients and they do not basically saturate their spiritual needs, especially in consideration of their work load as well as their unfamiliarity with this issue. Clients are not satisfied with the providing of spiritual and pastoral care, because such care is not provided to them, particularly on the part of nurses.
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Terminally Ill Senior Citizen in Hospital.
KOZÁKOVÁ, Jitka
The thesis deals with insuring a humanly dignified care for terminally ill senior people approached as the goal of a social work in a hospital environment. Medical facilities belong to places where senior people most often pass away, and where their dignity is also most endangered. The basis for working out the thesis is describing the man seen as the being whole and at the same time uniuqe, in which one sees man?s dignity. The following part of the thesis is dedicated to a palliative care as a guarrantor of maintaining dignified and quality life till its end. A knowledge of conceiving a terminally ill senior man, his/her needs and values is for a provision of the palliative care necessary. A part of the thesis deals with a specificity of social work in a palliative care, and with professional a personal competencies of a social worker. A provision of a support to those terminally ill and their close ones is in a hospital environment insured only partly. Based on the information collected the thesis is dedicated to outlining a humanly dignified care as the aim of social work. A social worker can participate on the above mentioned by being in a role of an accompanying one and a consultant for those left. A possibility to support a spiritual dimension of the man to which a social worker is in his/her both roles often close is approached in the final part of the thesis.
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The Spiritual Care in Hospitals in the South Bohemia region
HRUBÁ, Jitka
Spiritual Care in Hospitals in the South Bohemian Region In contemporary holistic perspective, we see man as an integrated unity existing and functioning in four dimensions. These are biological, psychological, social and spiritual dimensions. All these spheres create a whole; they are inseparable and they influence each other. Therefore, caring for the ill can be characterized as a combination of these aspects {--} taking care of his biological needs, assistance in his social needs, identification and fulfilling of his psychological needs and help in meeting his spiritual needs. Spiritual needs are inherent in man{\crq}s nature and so it would be erroneous to suppose that they are present and pronounced only in people who are believers. The intensity of the urge to satisfy these needs changes during life. Research done on this topic has revealed that this kind of need intensifies in old age and illness. In some countries, it is already common that hospitals employ spiritual workers or hospital chaplains. In the Czech Republic, there has been a discussion going on regarding the introduction of the hospital chaplain function and several hospitals have one already. The goal of this work is to present an overview of the offer and ways of providing spiritual care in the individual hospitals in the South Bohemian region and to find out whether the offer of spiritual care in these hospitals corresponds with the needs and interest of the patients. The work should also find out what kind of spiritual assistance the patients are interested in {--} whether they would welcome if the hospitals employed their own chaplains or if regular visit of a clergyman suffice, and also, who should perform the role of the hospital chaplain {--} whether a clergyman or a qualified layman. The hypotheses will be verified through a quantitative research. To find out the intensity and kind of interest of patients in satisfying their spiritual needs and to ascertain the level of their satisfaction with offered services, a method of questionning will be used. The research will be conducted through a standardized questionnaire and a guided interview with patients who are unable to fill it in. Possible ways of satisfying spiritual needs will be assessed by the method of questionning through guided interviews with head nurses in the individual hospitals in the South Bohemian region.
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