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Addictive substance use in a Retirement Home
BOROVKOVÁ, Michaela
This Bachelor's thesis addresses the issue of substance abuse in a home for the elderly. The dissertation is divided to a theoretical and a research part. The theoretical part contains a review of the literature on the given topic. It consists of four chapters. The first chapter contains an overview of legal and illegal substances. The second chapter deals with substance use in old age. The third chapter defines old age, ageing and the term eardely person. The last and fourth chapter focuses on the definition of the term nursing home. There are also described the conditions for admission to a nursing home, the services provided, including the number of nursing homes currently in the Czech Republic. The main aim of the bachelor dissertation is to explore the general awareness of the elderly people about addictive substances (types of addictive substances, their effects, formation of addiction, health and social complications of abuse,prevention and treatment options). The sub-objective is to determine the extent of substance use among seniors. The quantitative research methods were used to achieve these objectives. The collection of information was carried out by the interview method, using questionnaires of our own construction. The questionnaires included Likert scale, open and closed questions. The research was carried out in the selected home for the elderly in the South Bohemia region. The final sample included 30 respondents over the age of fifty. According to the research, the awareness of respondents is mostly high. Seniors use a variety of legal addictive substances, most commonly drugs, tobacco products, caffeinated beverages and alcohol. The results of the Bachelor's thesis may increase awareness of the problem among seniors and staff of retirement homes, including students of the helping professions and interested members of the general public.
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Regime measures and cardiologic patient
BOROVKOVÁ, Michaela
This bachelor thesis deals with problems of regime measures accompanying a cardiac patient. Since the term cardiac patient can vary widely, we determined solely one cardiac disease and it is a myocardial infarction. The theoretical part deals with the characterization of disease myocardial infarction, the term prevention and more specific secondary prevention and individual regime measures for patients after myocardial infarction. Furthermore, in this part, there is mentioned the role of a nurse who takes care of a patient, and ultimately problems accompanying recommended regime measures and their compliance. The practical part included determination of two aims. The first was to find out what regime measures are recommended within the secondary prevention to cardiac patients. The second had the task of mapping the nurse's role in an educational process of regime measures. A qualitative research survey applied by non-standard semi-structured interviews, was used for the work. The interviews were held with 10 nurses at the field of cardiology and 6 patients after myocardial infarction event with a gap of one month. The main topic was recommended regime measures and educational process, that generates information transmission. The research survey showed satisfactory knowledge of nurses and the fact that the cardiological nurses are well informed about the matters. The nurses know their role very well and they are aware of what this role involves. The research also revealed a negative section of educational information. The little time security for quality educational process was an unfavourable part. The benefit of this bachelor thesis should be to ease the nursing care and to help the cardiological nurses. We wanted them to have the material at their shoulders, where everything related to the problems of recommended regime measures for patients with myocardial infarction will be summarized.
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