This thesis is primarily based upon unstructiared interviews with nurses about their experiences of and attitudes towards nursing the dying. The main focus of the thesis is upon nursing the long term dying within a general hospital as seen from the nurse's viewpoint. The research is based upon the work of Glaser and Strauss which identified patterns of communication between health care workers and dying patients as being crucial to the experiences of the dying, and is broadly supportive of their findings. Many of the nurses interviewed expressed a preference for nursing dying patients who were aware of their dying. However, despite this preference for 'openness' most nurses reported difficulty in achieving this situation. Nursing the dying in an open awareness context was associated with enotional involvonent with the dying, and with satisfaction from such nursing care. It is argued that open awareness and good nursing care of the terminally ill is more likely to occur under a system of individualized patient care which is coupled with team support of individual nurses. The other features which affect the likelihood of open awareness developing are patient characteristics, doctors' views about disclosure, and individual characteristics of nurses.

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The diploma thesis titled " Child palliative care from a child nurse's perspective" responds to the current state of child palliative care in society. The aim of the work was to map childhood palliative care from the viewpoint of child nurses based on theoretical background. The thesis was elaborated as theoretical using the method of synthesis, explanation and comparison. The chapter titled Child Palliative Care has described what child care palliative care is and what it does. In addition, there have been described diseases that can be found in palliative care, as well as principles, levels and forms of child palliative care, pain, dying and death. However, the child's family in palliative care and the nurse's role in this care have not been omitted. In the second chapter entitled Child Palliative Care in the Czech Republic, the current state of child palliative care in our country, obstacles and accessibility were described,. Further, all three conferences that took place in our country and all the hospices that specialize in children and their visions in our country were described in the chapter. In the last chapter entitled Child Palliative Care in the World, the development of the hospice movement in the world, the development and the current state of child palliative care outside the territory of the Czech Republic were described. The work could serve as a comprehensive source of information on child palliative care. It could also serve as a basis for creating articles, new research or new theories.

In oncology setting, there is a range of emotions felt by patients and nurses alike such as helplessness, anger, sadness and anxiety; and this is especially the case as patients near the end of life. The literature shows there is an interest in nurses' attitudes toward caring for patients who are near the end of life. This project examines the overall attitude of Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) nurses' attitudes toward caring for patients who are near the end of life using the Frommelt Attitudes Toward Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD) and a Demographic Data Sheet. This project investigated the demographic variables including age, gender, ethnicity, religion, Oncology Certified Nurses status, highest degree held, years of nursing experience, years of oncology experience, years of BMT experience, prior continuing education in end of life, and prior experience taking care of a terminally ill patient, to see if they contribute to these differences in attitudes. This was a descriptive project. The sample consisted of a total of 30 BMT nurses, which included 8 men, and 22 women who have worked on the BMT unit for over a year. The mean years of nursing experience was 13.9 (SD=10.10), mean years of oncology nursing experience was 8 (SD=5.80), and mean years of BMT experience was 7.2 (SD=.60). The results of this project indicate that there is a positive relationship between number of years of experience as a nurse and positive attitudes toward caring for patients who are near the end of life. Scores on the FATCOD had a possibility to range from 30-150, with higher scores indicating a more positive attitude toward care of the dying. The scores from this project ranged from 113-148 with a mean of 128.6, indicating an overall positive attitude toward caring for the dying. This project should spur further investigation into attitudes toward caring for patients who are near the end of life. Nurses strive to take the best possible care of their patients and having an understanding of their attitudes will help them recognize areas of strength and weakness. This project supports interventions that are already being done by End of Life (EOL) Committee on the BMT unit at the Moffitt Cancer Center. The EOL committee is helping to create positive attitudes about caring for patients who are near the end of life by both supportive and educational methods.

The first part of my Diploma Thesis is dedicated to dying, it focuses on the perspective of the dying person. It also deals with the essential topics as hospice and palliative care. The second part tries to analyse ethically and evaluate in what sense is dying activity or inactivity and what possible moral attitudes may engage dying person in process of dying. At the beginning of the second part, there are defined the key words activity and inactivity. Basically, I'm trying to use this analysis to ethnically evaluate in which sense of dying is the dying person actually conducting and in which failures to act. Then follows simple typological analysis and evalauation based on inspiring typology of German philosopher Robert Spaemann. In the final part of the Thesis there are implied some connections between dying and the problem of sense of life. The most important is the answer of this question if needs of the sense is belong to everyone (included of dying people) in the same way. Also, how important is the influence in moral attitude of actual human after the sense of life.

The paper focuses on ethic issues and dilemmas which are connected with hospice care and makes emphasis on the actual problem of dying process and death alone. The thesis has a theoretical characteristic.

CHMELÍKOVÁ, Nikola. The Hospice Care Regulation in the Czech Republic: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Sociological Studies, Department of Public and Social Policy, 2014. Thesis Supervisor Mgr. Ing. Olga Angelovská The thesis titled "The Hospice Care Regulation in the Czech Republic" is about hospice care in the Czech Republic of its development due to the following important foreign and Czech documents in health and social care. The main reason that leads me to the elaboration of this work is particularly ambiguous and rather one-sided definition of hospice palliative care in the Czech Republic in terms of health care. In the analysis and evaluation, which is the main part of the paper I will draw on already existing documents and data that relate to the topic immediately. Another integral part of the consultation and discussion with experts from the ranks of both health and social services in providing care face barriers that currently has inadequate definition of the operation itself. The aim of the thesis is the analysis of documents and data relating to the regulation of hospice care in the Czech Republic, and their subsequent reflection of professionals who care about the issue of dying deal in their working lives. Keywords hospice care, legislation,...

(v AJ) According to research conducted by the STEM/MARK Agency in collaboration with Cesta domu organisation, 78% of the Czech population, wish to die at home. The fact is, however, that more than 60% of the chronically ill, who would benefit from a provision of specialized palliative care, die in beds of intensive, acute health care facilities or aftercare. The aim of this work was to determine whether, in what conditions and to what extent, it is possible to transfer some of the conditions for which the patients wish to die in a home environment, into intensive care and make the last period of life more bearable and pleasant for those who are dying here and find the most suitable solution to provide quality palliative care. This qualitative research was conducted in two steps, with the first phase led to the findings, for what reasons the sick desire to die at home and for what reasons their relatives agree to provide care to the sick. As a research method used was interpretative phenomenological analysis, the second phase was focused on the possibility of portability of these terms to intensive care and was based on the interviews with nurses serving in the Department of intensive care. The research method we had chosen was the method of grounded theory. The main result of this work is the...

After 1989, we have seen a great development of hospice and palliative care in the Czech Republic. At that period, the first hospice institutions came into being which later broadened their concepts on providing also the at-home care. The main aim of this thesis is to characterize the available concepts of the care of the dying patients in their home environment in the Czech Republic. The initial theoretical section introduces the definitions of the basic concepts of palliative and hospice care; the characteristics of the key institutions providing the at-home care; and deals with the hospice and palliative care legislative. The practical part, based on the use of the qaulitative research design and semi-structured interviews, helps to show the experience of various providers of palliative services. The analytic part depicts two concepts of the care of the dying people, which were identified on the base of the linterviews and which are currently available to patients. Keywords: hospic care, palliative care, mobile hospic, specialized mobile palliative care general practitioner, home care, social services, care of the dying patients, dying, death