Education of Elderly Patients Within Nursing Care in Slovakia

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Education of Elderly Patients Within Nursing Care in Slovakia

Original language description

Introduction: The paper deals with the problem of education of senior patients within the nursing care. The aim of the paper is to find out the level of nurses´ knowledge and skills in educating the elderly patients and to discover how these are reflected in the reality of clinical practice. It is a case study focused on showing the current real state of clinical practice related to the given topic. Methods: This text will introduce outcomes of a qualitative research (semi-structured interview, semi-structured observation, documents analysis) based on theoretical background. The research was carried out during the survey fellowship in the Slovak Republic and the respondents were nurses working in standard hospital departments. Certain phenomena, relations and influencing factors have been clarified through the follow-up analysis. The gathered data were processed by using the qualitative methods, in a form of case studies. Results: The qualitative survey, mentioned above, has revealed certain deficiencies in nurses´ knowledge and in the reality of the education of elderly patients in clinical practice. Discussion: These deficiencies in knowledge and skills are essential in the reality of clinical practice. Limitations: The research sample was made up of educating nurse / nurse working in geriatrics, in long-term care departments or internal departments. It included a total of 16 respondents. Conclusions: The sufficient attention should be paid to education of nurses that is focused on specificities of education of seniors/senior patients as well as on the reality of education that is performed. It´s necessary to, provide preparation for work with this specific age group even in pre-gradual nursing education.

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Educationis Generalis

ISSN

2585-741X

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

86-95

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