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Chronic pain is one of the priority problems in palliative care. The study objective was the validation of the nursing diagnosis of Chronic Pain (00133) in patients in palliative care. It is a retrospective study. To evaluate the defining characteristics of the nursing diagnosis, we used the patient-focused clinical diagnostic validity model of Fehring, which uses information obtained directly from...
The “choking game” (CG) is an activity in which self-strangulation, strangulation by others, or hyperventilation followed by applied pressure to the neck or chest is used in order to restrict oxygen flow to the brain and induce a brief euphoric state. Typically, the CG is engaged in by adolescents; it can cause serious injury and even death. The aim was to ascertain whether there are any scholarly...
Health literacy is defined as a person's ability to act upon information about health and to effectively use such information to improve their health. The aim of this paper is to map the possibilities of applying this concept in contemporary nursing and to reveal the conditions for and against its use in the nursing profession. We used a content analysis of documents to process the presented study...
The research aim was to map attitudes and knowledge of nurses regarding the issue of geriatric age and to find the influence of selected determinants influencing nurses’ knowledge.The work has a design of a cross-sectional quantitative study that is performed based on a questionnaire survey.The research group was formed of 100 nurses who were classified in the sample based on intentional selection...
One of the basic tasks of midwives’ and other sexual and reproductive care professionals’ work is to help people to fulfil their family plans. An important tool for achieving this is to offer reliable and relevant information. The aims of this paper are: (1) to map topics currently understood under the term “family planning”; (2) to assess its relevance to the current European situation; (3) to uncover...
The purpose of the study is to analyze BMI and the mean values of craniofacial parameters in the patients measured by directed anthropometry (PDAA) and by 3D scan (P3DAS). The aim of the study is to identify the most frequent localization of facial fat. The study sample was recruited from patients attending dental surgeries in Bratislava. Data were collected from November 2013 to February 2016. In...
This cross-sectional study assessed the magnitude of Livelihood Diversification (LD) and the effects of some socio-demographic factors in severe food insecurity among smallholder farmers in Kadida Gamela district, Southern Ethiopia. Data were collected from 200 households, using simple random sampling. We used the Barger–Parker Diversity Index (activity based) and the Simpson index to measure the...
The research article compares opinions of domestic and foreign authors concerning the most important knowledge management aspects through the application of which a certain model of KM implementation in a health facility is affected. Knowledge management is a discipline with a high potential for development because of highly qualified work in the health care sector, and because of changes that occur...
With the development of dialysing and treating process the life expectancy is extended and the patient's need of an improved quality of life (QoL) arises as well, but still not enough close to the level of a healthy population.We performed an area assessment of quality of life (QoL) in patients on peritoneal dialysis (PD) in the Czech Republic (n=95; male/female=49/46, average age 56.9±12.8; total...
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