Basic theoretical background The theoretical part of the thesis explores the issue of supervision and focuses on psychiatric nursing. It is divided into several parts. The first part is focused on supervision, briefly characterizes supervision as such, then it describes its divisions, functions and methods. It also explores the participants of supervision, the agreement on supervision, transcultural supervision and Balint groups. The following part describes historical development of psychiatric nursing, briefly presents the personality of Joyce E. Travelbee. In the conclusion of the theoretical part of the thesis the problems of education and competence of nurses in psychiatric care are introduced, marginally mentioning the Turku declaration. The aim of the work The main aim of the thesis is to investigate the awareness of nurses working in psychiatric care of the clinical supervision options. The task of the second objective is to find out the opinion on supervision of nurses working in psychiatric care. The third objective is focused on means to assist nurses working in psychiatric care in their personal development and growth within their practices. The purpose of the fourth objective is to find experience with supervision of nurses working in psychiatric care. The methods used Qualitative investigation was chosen for the empirical part of the thesis. The method used for data collection was in the form of semi-structured interview. The interviews with the respondents were taken down using a voice recorder and transcribed, qualitative data was then analyzed by pencil and paper encoding technique and semantically organized into 27. groups of categorization. The selection of a research sample was intentional, consisting of twelve nurses working in psychiatric care in the Czech Republic. Results The research focused on nurses who do not have personal experience with supervision revealed that they have certain awareness of the supervisory process, however not quite sufficient to be able to describe the nature and function of supervision in its entirety. Their knowledge is rather theoretical. They understood supervision as help to solve disharmonious relationships in the workplace, as well as it could improve communication skills of the nurses, it would also assist in dealing with crisis intervention and prevent burnout syndrome. The results regarding nurses who do not participate in the supervisory process clearly indicated that they have insufficient support and the opportunity for both their professional and personal growth in their workplace, while this important could be solved by supervision. The research, which covered only nurses who have had personal experience with supervision and regularly participate in it, showed that their knowledge and skills related to the supervision process are quite sufficient to be able to understand and use supervision practically in the whole range. These nurses sees supervision as a benefit that would allow them not only to understood themselves, but also to learn how to manage challenging situations that are a part of their profession. Supervision gives them confidence, provides support and teaches them to deal with people who are part of their work process. Supervision has become a tool for preventing burnout and showed them how to use their own potential effectively. Conclusion This thesis is focused on the use of supervision in psychiatric nursing. Working with mentally challenged patients is very demanding, therefore supervision plays its justified role there. If you do not know yourself and you are not able to solve your own problems, you can never effectively and comprehensively address the problems of others, who are often desperately waiting for your help. The results will be presented at professional seminars designed not only to nurses working in psychiatric care.

Bakgrund: Handledning kan ge sjuksköterskan möjlighet att reflektera, avreagera sig, bearbeta känslor och minska stress och känslor av otillräcklighet. Sjuksköterskor kan få ett ökat självförtroende av handledning och en ökad sammanhållning med varandra men att handledas i grupp kan vara en utmaning då det ställer krav på både öppenhet och engagemang. Syfte: Syftet med föreliggande studie var att beskriva sjuksköterskor upplevelse av grupphandledning inom öppen psykiatrisk beroendevård. Metod: Studien har en kvalitativ design med semistrukturerade intervjuer för datainsamling. Nio sjuksköterskor intervjuades och materialet analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Studiens resultat presenteras utifrån fyra huvudkategorier; att genom handledning reflektera över sitt omvårdnadsparadigm, att genom handledning skapa ett sjukskötersketeam, att genom handledning förstå vad som förväntas av sjuksköterskan och att genom handledning lära känna sig själv bättre. Huvudkategorierna har sammanlagt nio underkategorier. Diskussion: Studiens resultat diskuteras mot Antonovskys KASAM (begriplighet, hanterbarhet och meningsfullhet) samt annan litteratur och vetenskapliga artiklar. Studiens resultat visade att sjuksköterskorna med hjälp av handledning kan minska risk för utbrändhet och känsla av maktlöshet och frustration, öka tilliten till varandra i arbetsgruppen, öka autonomi och självförtroende och hjälpa sjuksköterskan hantera de känslor som uppstår i mötet med patienten / Background: Supervision can give the nurse the possibility to reflect, let of steam, process emotions and reduce stress and feelings of inadequacy. Nurses can get increased self-confidence and a better coherence with each other but to have group supervision can be a challenge because it demands openness and commitment. Aim: The aim of this study was to describe nurses experience of clinical group-supervision in psychiatric dependency care clinics. Method: The study has a qualitative design with semi-structured interviews for data collection. Nine nurses were interviewed and the material was analyzed with qualitative content analysis. Results: The results of the study is represented in four main categories; to reflect on the caring paradigm through supervision, to create a nursing team through supervision, to understand what is expected from the nurse through supervision and to get to know your self better through supervision. The main categories has all together nine appurtenant subcategorys. Discussions: The result of the study is discussed with Antonovskys KASAM (comprehensebility, manageability and meaningfulness) and other literature and scientific articles. The result of the study showed that the nurses could use the supervision to reduce the risk of burnout and feelings of incapacity and frustration, increase the trust to each other in the working group, increase autonomy and self-confidence and to handle the feelings that arises in the meeting with the patient.

Abstract Diploma thesis deals with the issue of community care in psychiatry and its objective is to describe the importance of a nurse in providing this care. Community psychiatric care is a very wide area of an intermediary patient assistance designed to help the patients in any areas of their lives. Although in the Czech Republic community care has not achieved the appropriate development yet, its benefits for patients are important now and its importance has been growing. In the theoretical part, after a brief introduction to community care issues, history, principles, but also community care connection with nursing care, are mentioned. Subsequently, attention is paid to particular areas of community care that are important for the mentally ill and the role of a nurse in these areas is described. The approach to the mentally ill, the issue of stigmatization and psychiatric care organizations are mentioned. In the theoretical are part, psychiatric illnesses that may occur in community care are also analyzed and it is explained how community care may be beneficial for psychiatric patients. In the practical part, the objective was to find out the level of psychiatric nurses´ awareness of community care and to determine if they see the sense of community care in psychiatry. Making a survey of community care in which nurses can be involved was another objective of the work. The nurses´ responses to the stated hypotheses were statistically analyzed within quantitative research. The purpose of hypotheses stated was to determine whether nurses with the work experience longer than ten years are more likely to believe that psychiatric care is more beneficial for patients than hospitalization., And also, if nurses with an education higher than secondary have better awareness of community services provision. Other hypotheses were focused on finding out whether nurses consider the most common community care services issue in the Czech Republic to be housing promotion and if nurses aged over thirty years are more aware of the nurses´ role importance in community care. None of those hypotheses were confirmed. The hypothesis assuming that nurses obtain more information on community care from the Internet and literature than at workshops was confirmed. Psychiatric nurses working in mental homes in the South Moravian region and the Vysočina region took part in this research. A component of the practical part is also an analysis of community services in these regions. In both the regions 13 civic associations and community centers were mapped.