This diploma thesis deals with basic stimulation, specifically in intensive care units. Basic stimulation is a holistic method that approaches the patient as a whole. It views patients as individual beings with specific needs that make them different from others. We use basic simulation to enable people with physical or mental disabilities an easier integration in life. When taking care of patients within the framework of basic stimulation, we take their habits, manners of communication as well as experience into consideration. We make use of everything that an individual perceives as pleasant and is used to. When using the elements of basic stimulation we stimulate the individual whom we thus enable to perceive his or her bodily boundaries and surroundings, we facilitate his or her communication with the surrounding world and his or her return to becoming aware of his or her own ?I? ? of who I am actually. The objective of our thesis was to find out whether nurses working at paediatric intensive care units apply methods of basic stimulation in their profession and what attitude they adopt to it. Further, we investigated whether the parents of hospitalised children have information about basic stimulation, and again, we were interested in the attitude parents adopt to this method. To achieve our objectives, we chose both the quantitative method, by means of an anonymous questionnaire that we handed out to nurses at paediatric intensive care units, and the qualitative method, by which we obtained information from the parents of hospitalised children by means of a semi-structured interview. Our respondents were the above nurses from paediatric intensive care units and the parents of hospitalised children. We have found out from our results that despite the fact that basic stimulation is not applied by all nurses we interviewed, it is a widely used method in the care of patients and it brings quality results in care. The nurses adopt, in most cases, a very positive attitude to this method. They find improvement and calming in their patients. Although basic stimulation is a frequently applied method, some parents of hospitalised children have not heard of it. The parents got involved in the care of their children with pleasure, also when elements of basic stimulation was applied. The nurses were very often willing to teach the parents these elements. The parents regarded basic stimulation in nursing as very beneficial and observed its positive effect on their children.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:138038 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | SOUKUPOVÁ, Alena |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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