Pečovatelství 1. díl • učebnice pro obor sociální činnost

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Libuša Tirpáková a kol. 

Primary care is the first level of the health system where people come with their health problems and where the health promotion and preventive care treatments and needs of the majority of the population are implemented.

The university textbook, which is organized in nine chapters, offers an overview of general outpatient health care from a nursing perspective. It characterizes the nursing process in ambulatory health care and models of nursing care. It addresses the implementation of advanced practice nursing in ambulatory health care and the role of the nurse in prevention and health promotion.

The textbook is intended for nursing students in both undergraduate and postgraduate education, as well as those interested in other health professions.

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Beáta Grešš HalászMária Sováriová SoósováMartin ČervenýJana Michalková

The aim of this university textbook is to provide a systematically structured teaching text focused on research in health sciences and, at the same time, to offer a practical methodological manual for writing final theses intended for students of medical and non-medical fields of study. The first chapter introduces the topic, maps the historical development of research in medical and non-medical sciences, and explains the concept of evidence-based practice (EBP) in the context of research activities. It also highlights the importance of research for these fields and describes the individual steps, principles, and methodological procedures of scientific work. The second chapter focuses on the basic attributes of research in health sciences, with an emphasis on key definitions, basic research designs, the typology of scientific studies, and the possibilities for using the relevant methodologies. It also includes the interpretation and analytical processing of quantitative data, while the third chapter analogously elaborates on the qualitative research approach. The fourth chapter is devoted to the ethical aspects of scientific research. The fifth chapter focuses on the evaluation of research papers in terms of their quality, structure, content coherence, reliability, and validity. The final sixth chapter provides methodological guidelines for planning, implementing, and processing individual types of final theses, with the aim of offering students practical and clearly structured instructions for their preparation. The publication also includes questions, tasks, and exercises that supplement theoretical knowledge with practical examples. These cases are intended to develop students' ability to design research studies and methodologically correctly prepare final theses.

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Margita Mesárošová - Miroslava Köverová - Soňa Lovašová

Intervention Program for Supporting Self-Care in Helping Professions: "How Do I Take Care of Myself?" The intervention program "How Do I Take Care of Myself?" was developed as part of the research project APVV14-0921, "Self-Care as a Factor in Coping with the Negative Consequences of Engaging in Helping Professions." Its uniqueness lies in being created based on specific research outputs from the program's authors and project.

In the first chapter, the authors offer insights into the preparation of the intervention program, justifying its theoretical foundations, methods, and specifics of the program participants. They also provide an overview of research on the effectiveness of various intervention programs aimed at reducing the negative consequences of helping and enhancing self-care and other positive effects of engaging in helping professions. Subsequent chapters focus on a detailed analysis and evaluation of the effectiveness of the intervention program "How Do I Take Care of Myself?" and its comparison with the effectiveness of other programs, which were differently focused, targeted at different populations of helping professionals, and had different theoretical and practical orientations and foundations. Most of these studies demonstrated positive changes only in isolated cases, due to various methodological shortcomings often related to practical application.

What differentiates the intervention program presented in this monograph is the participation of helping professionals actively practicing in the social field, unlike most intervention programs compiled and validated for students of these professions. The student population, being more accessible to researchers, allows for better methodology, including a larger number of participants, as well as experimental manipulation and group balancing. In the case of participants in the validation of the program "How Do I Take Care of Myself?", it involved practitioners who are engaged in the daily work process and completed training during their work breaks, which placed high demands on balancing their work and personal tasks. We believe that the effects we discovered during the validation of the effectiveness of the presented intervention program were not always clearly mathematically graspable but were evident from individual feedback.

We present the text of this monograph to the professional public with the aim of highlighting the benefits, limitations of the intervention program, as well as inspiring researchers and practitioners to further work in this area.

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Ľubica Libová - Zuzana Slezáková - Hilda Balková

Ošetrovateľský proces predstavuje východiská pre efektívnu a štandardizovanú prácu sestry. Aby mohla sestra poskytovať kvalitnú ošetrovateľskú starostlivosť, musí mať adekvátny základ vedomostí a dostatok zručností. Realizácia ošetrovateľského procesu znamená nielen progres pre pacienta ako príjemcu kvalitnej ošetrovateľskej starostlivosti, ale tiež sa podieľa a zabezpečuje ochrannú bariéru pre samotný výkon povolania sestry. Metóda ošetrovateľského procesu je v súčasnosti medzi zdravotníckymi profesiami ošetrovateľstva a pôrodnej asistencie známa, keďže sa zaviedla do klinickej praxe u nás už pred vyše dvadsiatimi rokmi. Aj v študijných odboroch ošetrovateľstvo a pôrodná asistencia má už tento program pevné miesto. Možno ho poskytovať v každom prostredí, kde sa vykonáva ošetrovateľská
starostlivosť v zdraví, počas choroby a vo všetkých fázach života.

Táto vysokoškolská učebnica je rozdelená do piatich kapitol. Určená je na vzdelávanie študentov ošetrovateľstva a pôrodnej asistencie, sestrám a pôrodným asistentkám v praxi, ako aj pedagógom. Jednu kapitolu tvorí ošetrovateľský proces a ďalšie sú zamerané na vybrané klinické odbory. V každej z týchto kapitol sú uvedené charakteristiky jednotlivých chorôb, špecifiká ošetrovateľského procesu vo vybraných klinických odboroch, príklady ošetrovateľských diagnóz a ošetrovateľská starostlivosť. Na konci každého ošetrovateľského procesu sú uvedené kontrolné
otázky na podporu samoštúdia. Umožňujú pedagógom a hlavne študentom overiť si vedomosti z danej problematiky.

Autorský kolektív predpokladá, že táto učebnica doplní chýbajúce odborné texty vo vzdelávaní študentov ošetrovateľstva a pôrodnej asistencie a pomôže im lepšie pochopiť predkladané učivo.

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