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Profession of General Nurse at the present time.
FÜRST, Zdeněk
The submitted bachelor's thesis deals with the issue of men who currently work as male nurses. Its objectives were to identify the opinion of nurses of the men's role in nursing, whether the existing conditions had any impact on job performance of male nurses, and what problems men encountered when working as male nurses. Our research was carried out by combination of qualitative and quantitative research techniques. Within the qualitative technique we used a semi-structured interview with male nurses (10 responders) while in quantitative research we used a non-standardized questionnaire answered by nurses (101 responders). The selection of responders was intentional. The results of the quantitative research have shown that nurses perceive the presence of male nurses positively and that they appreciate their personality traits and work capabilities. The majority of female responders (72%) agree that men do have their place in nursing, and they also state that patients accept male nurses in the same way as they accept nurses (80%). The results of qualitative research have shown that the majority of male nurses are satisfied with their job and that work with people and help to people make them happy. The vast majority of them have never experienced any condemnation in relation to the performance of their job. All responders are well accepted by patients. Their work performance is affected by their team, patient's condition, lack of personnel and personal factors. When performing their job they encounter problems, such as psychical and time demands, lack of personnel, communication and certain procedures. Some responders commented on financial undervaluation of their job. We may say that the research has arrived at the conclusion that the field of nursing is persistently facing problems such as gender stereotype, financial undervaluation and lack of personnel, and these are the factors that may affect not just the number of men working in the field of nursing, but also the quality of nursing care as such.
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Problematics of General Nurses in Health Service
BABKA, Jakub
Currently, nursing is mostly taken as a profession for women with the title generel nurse. According to the Law of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic Nr. 96/2004 Sb. Is the man who successfully completed degree course nurse, would be called a general attendant. Therefore was for processing selected work entitled Problems of general nursing in health care. In the theoretical part of it is elaborated in detail their involvement in the care of patients from past to present. Next, there are mentioned competence of general attendant in the theoretical part, nursing as an independent science and syndrome of burnout. The aim of the work was to determine patients satisfaction with general attendant, to determine which departments give priority general nurses and identify problems of general attendants. Based on it, they were established four hypotheses and one research question. H I: General attendants better handle physically demanding work than the nurses. H II: Patients give priority general attendants to general nurses in wards for male patients. H III: General attendants in urgent wards more often then in the standard wards work. H IV: Patients perceive positively general attendants in the hospital. Research question: What problems have general attendants? Investigation was carried out by means of questionnaires and interviews. Questionnaires were addressed to patients, in the wards where general attendants work, in hospital in Písek, Prachatice, České Budějovice and Český Krumlov. Interview were made with 11 general attendants working in different wards of chosen hospitals. The questionnaire showed results that the general attendants better handle physically demanding work in a hospital and he is perceived positively. It follows that the hypothesis number 1 and 4 were confirmed. Interviews with general attendants pointed out that the general nurse works on the department of emergency care more frequently that on the standard wards. This confirms our hypothesis H3. It is obvious that the biggest problem is the designation of men in the field of general nurse as a general nurse. This designation is considered degrading. Other problems include dissatisfaction with the financial rewards and administration. We can draw following conlusions and hypotheses: 1) The biggest perceived problem is a general indication of the nursing profession, 2) general attendants are dissatisfied with their financial rewards; 3) General administrative work abstains general attendants of exercise of their profession. Work should help in resolution and answer of problem of general attendants, open wider and fruitful discussion. If it is possible.
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