Respect for the dignity diing in nursing care

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Respect for the dignity diing in nursing care

Original language description

Introduction: Nursing care for dying patients is very demanding and carries a great physical and mental burden. It is necessary to know how to approach these people in the best way so that care does not lose the human dimension. The basic prerequisite for the provision of human care is the respect of health care professionals to the dignity of patients. The merit of the paper is to highlight the problems and dilemmas that are dying clients exposed to, their close relatives, as well as medical staff. Aim: The aim of research was to determine whether and how dignity of hospital patients in the terminal stage of disease is undermined, how medical staff approaches to the dying and their families. Material and research methods: A questionnaire technique was used that was made via the Survio internet service and distributed through an internet link.Validity of the questionnaire was set from 01 February, 2017 to 20 March 2017. The research group consists of 191 respondents, paramedical practitioners and students of health care professions. Results:Questionnaire survey results show that 50.79% of the respondents were in a situation where the dignity of a dying patient was disturbed by other healthcare workers during nursing care. Respondents state that it was e.g. disrespect for patient intimacy, inappropriate or inadequate communication, inappropriate handling of the patient and neglect of his / her needs. There is a positive finding that the respondents have empathic, professional and caring attitude to the dying, and most often feel respect, understanding, and responsibility during care of the dying. There is an empathic and caring approach to the family of patients in a terminal stage of disease. Conclusions: The issues of dying and human dignity still belong to taboo topics. However, we can say that today there is a slight improvement in the situation in the sense that death begins to be discussed as a natural part of life. One of the goals of contemporary nursing is to alleviate the suffering of the sick person, to ensure a peaceful dying and dignified death. In an interacting with the dying and his / her loved ones, the medical staff must try to achieve these aims.

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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

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Polish Journal of Health and Fitness

ISSN

2451-0351

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Volume of the periodical

2016

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

1-6

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