The diploma thesis deals with the issues of nursing care and the nurse?s position in the complex process of transplantation. Transplantation treatment becomes more important in the course of time. There are such situations that there is no other choice of restoring and saving the health of the sick person but to transplant. The complex process of transplantation is a chain of successive operations in which not only many doctors but also other medical and paramedical staff are involved and they constantly interact not only with the patient. Classically, the largest group in providing patient care is general nurses who assume the responsibility for the direct provision of nursing care, work independently and are responsible for the care provided. Their work requires a deep knowledge of the branch and many professional activities without suppressing their original mission. Today?s nurse is a full member of the team and the doctor?s partner in practicing his or her profession. The theoretical part deals comprehensively with the issues of the removal of organs especially from deceased donors, their transplantation and legislation in the Czech Republic and especially with the role of a nurse which she has in this process. An objective of the research survey was to map whether a nurse really felt to be the doctor?s partner in this challenging branch of providing nursing care and what their attitudes towards practicing their own profession in this branch were and to map the extensiveness of their knowledge and educational opportunities in these issues. Another objective was to map the attitudes of patients themselves towards care in the transplantation treatment process. In the research survey a quantitative method was used and applied by distributing questionnaires to general nurses working at a department of transplantation medicine. The results of the questionnaire survey were processed to create well-arranged tables. The qualitative part of the research survey was carried out through interviews with patients who are in the transplantation treatment process. The interviews were processed in writing and the results were summarized in mind maps.

Theoretical foundation: Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic system disease manifesting itself particularly by inflammatory joint impairment. The main problems confronting daily the patient include pains of the motor system and fatigue. The disease has typically long, progressive development, and although it does not cause directly the patients' death, it reduces their life by some ten years on average. The serious character of the disease consists in the fact that the motor abilities of the individual are gradually impaired. At the beginning the patients must avoid major physical activity, often give up their hobbies and sometimes even their jobs. In the most serious cases, the disease may even prevent the patients from performing basic self-service activities. Goal of the thesis: The goal of the thesis consists in mapping the level of problems of rheumatoid arthritis patients at performing daily activities. Hypotheses - H1: Rheumatoid arthritis patients feel discomfort when performing common daily activities, H2: Rheumatoid arthritis patients make use of supporting and compensation aids when performing common daily activities, H3: Rheumatoid arthritis patients make use of another person's assistance when performing common daily activities. Methodology: The research part of the thesis was implemented based on quantitative inquiry within the grant Project No. 120/2012/S ?Reflection of life quality in nursing?. The actual research made use of HAQ standardized questionnaire, distributed among the rheumatoid arthritis patients. The size of the research set was set at 200 rheumatoid arthritis patients from all over the Czech Republic. The respondents were chosen based on quota selection, striving to observe the proportion of men to women at 3:1, i.e. 150 women and 50 men. When searching the respondents, organizations associating patients with the respective diagnosis were first approached. All results obtained were statistically processed in the SASD (Statistical Analysis of Social Data) program. Descriptive statistics were used. Results: The results can be divided into three areas, by the related hypotheses. The first part of the results gave information on the degree of discomfort felt by the individuals when performing specific common daily activities. It was found out that the patients see the most difficult activity in taking down an item from a place above their head and bathing in the bathtub. The second area brought information on the aids used to perform common daily activities. The respondents named dressing aids or handgrips at the bathtub most frequently. The third and last area brought the answer to the question what activities require another person's help. The patients named reaching or opening of things most frequently. But an essential part of the patients stated not to need any help of another person in common daily activities. Based on the results, the hypotheses were evaluated as follows: H1 - Rheumatoid arthritis patients feel discomfort when performing common daily activities - confirmed, H2 - Rheumatoid patients make use of supporting and compensation aids when performing common daily activities - confirmed and H3 - Rheumatoid arthritis patients make use of another's person when performing common daily activities - not confirmed. Conclusion: The thesis provides a detailed and comprehensive view on the issues of performing common daily activities in rheumatoid arthritis patients. The results can be used both by practical nurses and by students of nursing and related disciplines. The thesis can also constitute foundation for further research. The thesis results will be also presented and published.

The research included quantitative as well as qualitative elements. The aim of the thesis was to find out the attitude of the nurses in internal medicine and surgical sections to a practical nursing process. The inquiry and questionnaire method was used for data collection. The second aim was to find out the possibilities of the improvements of nursing process in practical conditions in relation to the particular depatment. The qualitative research was held with head nurses and ward sisters in internal medicine and surgical depatments with the use of halfstrukture interview. The research file in a quantitive research was represented by nurses working in internal medicine and surgical departments in České Budějovice Hospital, PLC . In these departments 200 questionnaire forms were at nurses´ disposal, 180 of them being completed. 90 nurses work in departments connected with internal medicine and 90 nurses come from specialized surgical departments. The first two questions had the identification character, the other four questions were focused on the nurses´education and the rest of the questions concerned the satisfaction with carrying out the nursing anamnesis, with making a nursing diagnosis, with keeping administrative materials of nursing, with planning to put nursing care into practice. The questionnaire provided possibilities for expressing the nurses´views and opinions suggestions for improving the existing situation. The last seven questions were connected with the sphere of the nurses´motivation. For this quantitative research five kinds of hypotheses were outlined. H1 - The nurses in internal medicine departments are more satisfied with the practical nursing process than the nurses in surgical departments. H2 - The nurses with the university education background are more satisfied with the nursing process compared to nurses without university education background. H 3 - The nurses are not satisfied with recording the nursing diagnosis, as it is done in a practical way. H4 - The nurses in surgical departments would welcome fewer documentation materials compared to the nurses from internal medicine departments. H 5 - The nurses are more satisfied with the nursing process in a well-working section compared with the section with a longlasting dismal situation. The qualitative research file included 8 ward and head nurses working in České Budějovice Hospital, PLC. 4 leading nurses were from departments connected with internal medicine and 4 leading nurses were frodepartments connected with internal medicine and 4 leading nurses came from departments with surgical specialization. The interview took place in the particular departments and started with the research question about the ways of improving the nurses´ satisfaction with the nursing process in practical activities in České Budějovice Hospital,PLC. The aim of the thesis was to find out the attitude of the nurses from the departments connected with internal medicine and surgical treatment to the nursing process in practical activities. The results of the quantitative research show that the nurses express dissatisfaction with recording the nursing diagnosis, they require unified brief form, the completing of which would not take much time from their nursing duties. Another kind the nurses´dissatisfaction is related to the way of recording the nursing anamnesis.

The dissertation is divided into theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part deals with the historical equipment of nursing and nursing education in the Czech Republic, further the legislation, the implementation of nursing education and a personality of a nurse. For the processing of the empirical part there was chosen the method of quantitative and qualitative research inquiry. For the quantitative inquiry there was chosen the method of asking by means the technique of a questionnaire and for the qualitative part of the research inquiry there was chosen the method of asking, namely the method of half-structured interview with opened questions. For the quantitative inquiry there were prepared two sorts of questionnaire, the first for the nurses, namely the universal nurses from experience and the second for patients, it means for the non ? professional public within the Southern Bohemia. There were set six surmises for this part of inquiry. The results of the inquiry were elaborated into diagrams and tables. In the quantitative part of the research inquiry were verified six hypothesis, that were set in advance: 1. The interest of nurses for the education follows more from the legislative aiming than from interest about more quality nursing care of a patient. The results show us that the need of credit is for the nurses more important than the need of more quality care for a patient. The first hypothesis was confirmed. 2. Choice of the courses of lifelong learning depends more on the amount of financial claims than on the orientation on care that provided. There follows from the research inquiry that for the nurses is more important the interestingness of an event than the amount of financial costs. The second hypothesis was disproved. 3. Motivation for the nurses for education is more the system of university education than the increasing of the quality of care. The results show that the nurses are more motivated by the need of a university education than by a better care of a patient. The third hypothesis was verified. 4. Implementation of an output of education isn´t incremental to its application in the real environment. The research inquiry showed us, there is no big possibility for the nurses to implement the results of their education in practice. The fourth hypothesis was verified. 5. The patient?s don´t distinguish, if the nursing care is provided by a qualified nurse or by another member of a nursing team. The fifth hypothesis was verified. 6. The patient?s don´t perceive nurses according to their education, but to a uniform. The results show, that the patients are not knowledgeable in the nursing staff neither according to their uniform nor their education. The sixth hypothesis was disproved. There were approached 12 respondents for the qualitative part of the research inquiry, within the Southern Bohemia again. The interviews were taken down, rewritten and analysed. The obtained data were categorized. There was set Research question for the qualitative part of the research inquiry: What is the meaning of nurses about the implementation of their education I the praxis? There was finding out by the research inquiry, that the nurses generally welcome the university education, mainly because of the reason, that the nurses come in praxis in a higher age. The lifelong learning should be also beneficial for them, but this has its shortcomings, namely in the financial part and it isn´t supported by the employers. They can also see the problem in implementation of their obtained knowledge from education in non ? interest of their employer and other members of nursing team.

Theoretical foundation Crohn's disease is a chronical autoimmune disease categorized, together with ulcerative colitis, in the group of idiopatic intestinal inflammations. But in spite of this categorization, Crohn's disease may not be found only in the intestines but anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract. However, the intestinal localization is most frequent and is related with numerous manifestations like stomachake, diarrhoea, bloating, flatulence, belching, loss of weight, etc. The pathogenetic cause of those discomforts consists in disorder of autoimmunity, when the body starts producing antibodies against its own tissues. But the cause of start of that pathogenetic mechanism has not been clarified so far. Experts speak about influence of infections, food, psychosomatics, smoking, genetic perceptiveness, etc. The hope of the patients is pinned on the continuously improving treatment, culminating by biological preparations that have most influenced the health condition of those persons so far. But in spite of the modern therapy, all characteristics of the disease can have negative impact on the quality of life of the patients. Goal of the thesis The goal of this thesis consists in ascertaining the quality of life of Crohn's disease patients. Hypotheses H1: Crohn's disease patients have problems in physical area. H2: Crohn's disease patients have problems in psychic area. H3: Crohn's disease patients have problems in social area. Methodology The practical part of the thesis was implemented based on quantitative inquiry within the grant Project No. 120/2012/S ?Reflection of life quality in nursing?. Two standardized questionnaires were used for the inquiry: the WHOQOL-100 general questionnaire and the IBDQ specific questionnaire, distributed among Crohn's disease patients. Valid licence was bought for both questionnaires. The size of the research set was determined at 100 Crohn's disease patients, the Crohn's disease diagnosis being the only criterion for selection of the respondents. The distribution of the questionnaires among the respondents took place with the help of gastroenterological centres. Results All data obtained were statistically processed in the SASD (Statistical Analysis of Social Data) program. The results of the processing can be divided into three areas, by the three main hypotheses verified. The first area of results provided information on the problems confronted by Crohn's disease patients in physical area. Only one problem was confirmed here: the Crohn's disease patients feel fatigue. All the remaining problems under verification in this area were refused. The second area brought information on psychical problems of the patients. Similarly to the preceding case, only one problem troubling the Crohn's disease patients was found here: feeling of irritation. The occurrence of the remaining psychical problems under verification was not confirmed. The last area of results found out the problems of the patients in social area. The results were the most positive in this case, as none of the problems under verification in this area was confirmed. Based on all results stated above, the hypotheses were evaluated as follows: H1 Crohn's disease patients have problems in physical area - refused; H2 Crohn's disease patients have problems in psychic area - refused and H3 Crohn's disease patients have problems in social area - refused. Conclusion The thesis provides comprehensive view on the issue of quality of life of Crohn's disease patients. The results may be used particularly in the work of so called IBD nurses, endoscopic nurses, but also general nurses working with the patients. The thesis can be also used as study material or as foundation for further research.

In the theoretical part of the thesis, we described the conducting system of the heart, cardiac automaticity, physiological impulse formation and its conduction in the myocardium and mechanisms of arrhythmias. Furthermore, we focused on the classification of arrhythmias and their description in different types of arrhythmias, possibilities of treatment and the role of nurses in the care of patients with heart rhythm disorders. For the thesis, we chose a qualitative research conducted by the form of interviews with nurses. The research took place in three hospitals in the Czech Republic and three in the Slovak Republic. Before realization of the qualitative research, we contacted the management of every hospital in order to obtain a permission to carry on with our research. In each of these hospitals, we spoke to five nurses and then subsequently interviewed them. In overall, we interviewed 30 nurses, 15 of them work in the Czech Republic and 15 hospitals in the Slovak Republic. Research was conducted at the Cardiology departments of these hospitals. The criterion of selection was work of nurses with their patients with heart rhythm disorders. Interviews were recorded and then rewritten. The results were categorized into schemes and then finally compared. The first aim we set was to find out the specific knowledge of nurses care about patients with abnormal heart rhythm in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. Most of them knew what is important for patients and what especially do they need to focus on, what to watch over and in what they need to draw patient?s attention. Nurses often spoke in general and especially in the case of education of the patient in this field. Despite nurses? work with patients with abnormal heart rhythm and their knowledge about arrhythmias, their treatment and their roles, we have decided to develop a handbook for them. This manual can expand knowledge of nurse working with these patients, but its main purpose is to serve nurses who have little knowledge in this field. Therefore, nurses are about to begin to work with patients with abnormal heart rhythm and would like to learn the basic information about arrhythmias, their treatment and the fraction of nurses? to care of these patients. The second aim we set to ourselves was to find out the workflow of the nurses working with patients with abnormal heart rhythm in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. There were differences between the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. When asking Czech nurses what workflow do they use, the most common responses were invasive and non-invasive treatment methods. In the Slovak Republic, nurses talked about providing their patients with proper care and workflow according to developed standards. The ultimate aim was to compare the results of nursing care of patients with abnormal heart rhythm in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. All in all we came to the conclusion that nursing care in both countries are in a good condition and complication rate is very low. None of interviewed nurses stated frequent occurrences of complications at her workplace.

Theoretical foundation Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ranks among the most serious diseases in the population. The COPD prevalence is assumed at up to 7,7%. As the name shows, it is a chronic disease characteristic with typical symptoms including particularly cough, expectoration and noticeable dyspnoea. The symptoms may get worse above their common level in the course of the disease, which we call exacerbation. The presence of unpleasant breathing problems affects different life areas, restricting the individual when performing everyday activities. The patient's psyche is affected as well, including potential incidence of anxieties or depressions. Finally, the patient's subjectively perceived quality of life is significantly worsened. Goal of the thesis The goal of this thesis is to ascertain the areas in which COPD affects the quality of life. Hypotheses H1: COPD patients feel breathing problems. H2: COPD patients feel restrictions in the sphere of common daily activities. H3: COPD patients feel restrictions in the sphere of physical activity. H4: COPD patients feel restrictions in social sphere. H5: COPD patients experience negative feelings. H6: COPD patients perceive their quality of life as bad. Methodology The research investigation was implemented based on quantitative inquiry within the grant Project No. 120/2012/S "Reflection of life quality in nursing". The data collection was performed under use of quantitative method; the research investigation took place with the help of questionnaire technology. Two questionnaires were used: St. George's Respiratory Questionare Czech (SGRQ) and WHOQOL 100 generic standardized questionnaire. The questionnaires were distributed to persons with diagnosed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The selection set was made up through quota selection that was observed. The quotas consisted in COPD diagnosis and the respondents' gender. The proportion of men and women was specified at 500 persons, 294 men and 206 women from that number. The research set consisted of 296 men and 207 women, i.e. 503 respondents in total. The investigation took place through addressing general practitioners, specialized outpatients' departments and chest disease wards. Results The results were processed with the help of the SASD program (statistic analysis of social data). The results can be divided into three groups. The first group includes the results characterizing the structure of the research set; the second group includes the graphically represented results, and the third group includes the results processed with the help of descriptive statistics. The last two groups include results from both questionnaires used. The results allowed us obtaining information on perception of breathing problems by the patients, on the sphere of common daily activities, on problems in the sphere of movement, on social sphere, on experiencing of negative feelings and on subjective perception of quality of life. Based on the results, the hypotheses were evaluated as follows: H1: COPD patients feel breathing problems confirmed, H2: COPD patients feel restrictions in the sphere of common daily activities - confirmed, H3: COPD patients feel restrictions in the sphere of physical activity not confirmed, H4: COPD patients feel restrictions in social sphere - not confirmed, H5: COPD patients experience negative feelings confirmed, and H6: COPD patients perceive their quality of life as bad - not confirmed. Conclusion The thesis provides comprehensive view of the spheres affecting the quality of life of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It may be used not only for nurses but also for the whole multidisciplinary team caring for the patient. The thesis may be used also as study material for nursing students. The results of the research investigation will be further presented at conferences and published in professional journals.

Patient satisfaction with the services provided is extensive and actual topic. The goal of this thesis is to find out patient satisfaction with the services of general practitioners for adults in České Budějovice, Trhové Sviny a Borovany. The patient satisfaction is evaluated primarily in connection with the satisfaction of their needs during illness. The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part consists of seven chapters. The first chapter is an introduction to the medical practice and deals with the concept of quality of health care. The sixth chapter examines satisfaction and its impact on the assessment of the quality of services by patients. The last, seventh chapter focous on the relationship of health workers and patients. The practical part deals with the research, which was conducted using quantitative research strategies, methods and questioning survey techniques. Questionnaire that we created for assessing patient satisfaction includes fourteen questions. This part sets out the objective, hypotheses, methodology, results of research, discussion and conclusion. This thesis has two hypotheses. H1: Doctors who have office hours in the afternoon are better at assessment than those who have office hours only in the morning. H2: Patients from smaller towns will be satisfied with the services of general practitioners more than patients from large cities. The research sample consisted of 453 respondents. The data were processed using Microsoft Office Excel 2010 and then were processed into graphs or tables. Hypotheses were tested using the homogeneity test, the Pivot Table. The results of this thesis can serve as an extension of the information for general practitioners for adults on the current topic.

These days human being can find itself swamped with tons of information. It is neccessary to think over provided information given by a health care system and its efficiency. The thesis named Types of patient´s information needs is divided into a theoretical part and a practical part. Materials about nursing, medicine, psychology, sociology and a law issued in the Czech Republic and abroad were used to get necessary information about current condition of problematics. Two goals were set based on acquired knowledge. The first goal was to get to know about what type of information were requested and needed by patients and which they missed from nurses and doctors in ambulances and hospitals. The second goal was to double check if a personal perceiving of a given information corresponds with the real diagnosis. With respect to thesis goals, 9 research questions were formulated. Information regarding examined topic were acquired through research and investigation. As the means of collecting the data an interview was chosen. 23 interviews with patiens were done and the analyzed according to the Strausse theory. It was found, that patiens involved in this interview, take care about their health condition and that the information, which they perceive as important, are given to them by the medical staff. The information they have makes them more comfortable and they view it as a very important. It was as certained, that patients are very sensitive about the way the medical staff communicates with them and that their personality plays part in this process. The purpose of this thesis is to give an impulse to reinforce informing the patiens in a written form, but mainly to reinforce their personal contact with a doctor. Is is obvious, that the information and the way they get it is very important for patients.

Person with stoma is any handicapped human with temporarily or permanently drawn hollow organ out onto body surface. The most common it concerns colon, small intestine or urinal system. Uncontrollable emptying of faecal matter or urine happens by innatural way with necessary use of stoma appliances. In stomas sphere the most important factor is informedness not only of the patient himself but of nurses as well. Sufficient education of a patient and ability of a nurse to treat stoma is the base of good nursing care. The aim of the thesis was to find out to what degree the stoma patients are informed on ways of stoma treatment and how they are satisfied with the quality of given nursing care. The work is divided on contemporary state and methodological procedures. Contemporary state includes especially pre-operation, post-operation, home and out-patient care, clients´ education, importance of stoma nurse and association of stoma patients, kinds of stoma appliances, specifics of stoma patients´ nutrition, social problems of stomas etc. For the research part six hypotheses were established. They concerned the quality of nursing care, problems of stomas treating, cooperation with nurse and club of stoma patients. It was found out that 81% addressed people are satisfied with the quality of given nursing care, 98% are familiar with problems of stomas treating, 99% were able after six months after setting of stoma to take care of stoma themselves,72% are members of the club and 90% cooperate with a stoma nurse. On the base of the research all hypotheses were confirmed and the aim of the thesis was fulfilled.In the thesis a method of quantitative research was chosen. The research proceeded in Hospital České Budějovice, Inc. in clubs of stoma patients in Tábor and Příbram. The technique of data collecting was anonymous questionnaire established for clients with a stoma. 100 respondents were addressed. The research proceeded on the base of personal contact and cooperation with stoma patients, therefore the return of questionnaires was 100%. Two questionnaires were from the reason of incompleteness taken out. The results are given in percentages and diagrammatized.