Journal of Nursing, Social Studies, Public Health and Rehabilitati, 2015 (vol. 6), issue 3-4
Crohn's disease and dietary recommendations
Eva Beňová, Mária Boledovičová, Kateřina Teplá
JNSS 2015, 6(3-4):95-105 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2015.010 
Crohn's disease is a chronic non-specific inflammatory bowel disease of any part of the digestive tract, which has a segmental character and digestive tract affects the wall transmurally in all layers. It is a disease of multifactorial etiology. One of the presumed causes of the disease is excessive immune reactions to physiologically occurring intestinal flora in genetically predisposed individuals. Incidence in the Czech Republic is around 4-6 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants per year. Clinical manifestations of the disease are varied and are dependent on localization, extent of disease and the nature of local inflammatory changes. The most common...
Humanistic versus pragmatic approach to nursing care for cardiac patients
Zdeňka Pavelková, Alan Bulava
JNSS 2015, 6(3-4):106-113 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2015.011
Introduction: This paper deals with the attitude of nurses to cardiac patients undergoing modern non-pharmacological methods of treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), with reference to the fundamental principles of nursing and nursing care. AF is the most common supraventricular arrhythmia for which, in the last twenty years, there has been a significant increase in recorded prevalence and incidence. The issue of the perception of nursing care presents the view on the orientation and specialization of nurses, i.e. whether the specialization is technical (i.e. only on performance) or humanist.Objectives and methods: The aim of this...
Sedentary life in the context of educational attainment
Lukáš Martinek, Valérie Tóthová, Marek Zeman
JNSS 2015, 6(3-4):114-122 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2015.012
The article deals with the issue of sitting and sedentary lifestyles as a social problem of the healthy adult population of the Czech Republic in relation to the education achieved. The research sample consisted of 1,122 respondents, 544 men (48.5%) and 578 women (51.5%). The data were collected using a standardized questionnaire, IPAQ, which mapped physical activity in the last week. More than 41.3% of the respondents sit for more than 6 hours in a work week. Similarly, on weekends 39.4% of the respondents sit for more than six hours. People with a basic education spend the most time sitting on weekdays. 78% of respondents with a basic education spend...
Review
Social exclusion among problem drug users
Nikola Brandová, Alena Kajanová
JNSS 2015, 6(3-4):123-129 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2015.013
The survey report presents a summary of the acquired knowledge about social exclusion in the context of problematic drug users. The data are based on a secondary data analysis, in which scientific articles were searched for regarding the period between 2003 and 2014 in databases EBSCO, Scopus and PubMed. We used the following key words: drug users - social exclusion - addiction. We also used information obtained from printed expert sources and monographs. In the literature, there are two views on the connection of substance abuse and the phenomenon of social exclusion. The first one is devoted to social exclusion as a consequence of problematic drug...
Reference to the "human-to-human relationship" concept in the work of Joyce Travelbee and its potential application regarding supervision in nursing
Věra Stasková, Milena Vaňková, Valérie Tóthová, Sylva Bártlová
JNSS 2015, 6(3-4):130-134 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2015.014
The authors of this article present the information from the foreign literature on nursing and other literature sources and databases focusing on, as yet in the Czech Republic unpublished, the work of the American psychiatric nurse and nursing theorist Joyce Travelbee (1926-1973), who in 1969 described the supervision in nursing as a concept supporting the professional development of nurses. The goal of the report is to briefly introduce the readers to the issue of models and theories, not only in nursing, but also in supervision. There are basic phases of the concept of the "human-to-human relationship" from the works of Joyce Travelbee introduced...
Visual and haptic contact of women with a stillborn baby
Kateřina Ratislavová
JNSS 2015, 6(3-4):135-140 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2015.015
The paper deals with the possibility of visual and haptic contact of a woman/parents with a stillborn baby. It mentions the historical connection of the approach to saying farewell to a stillborn baby, and new findings about the influence of contact with a stillborn on women's mental health after perinatal loss. Decision making on physical contact of parents with their stillborn baby is highly influenced by their natural need to see the child, but also by the behaviour, attitude and approach of the medical staff. The research results of the farewell ritual through visual or physical contact with a stillborn baby from the Czech Republic are considerably...
Lymphangiogenesis and tumor metastasis
Eva Rovenská, Mária Kovářová
JNSS 2015, 6(3-4):141-144 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2015.016
The review article is focused on lymphangiogenesis and on metastatic spread of tumor cells via the lymphatic vessels. Numerous new lymphatic vessels (especially lymphatic capillaries) are formed in the tumors and in their nearby location during lymphangiogenesis. Tumor cells can enter the lymphatic capillaries through existing specially opening connections in the capillaries walls between their endothelial cells. These are not connected with connecting complexes. When opened, the opening is a few micrometers wide. These specialized connections are named the same as the primary valves. Tumor cells can also erode lymphatic vessels and create larger incoherence...
Womanhood, menses and legislating on the pangs of dysmenorrhea: an essay in African public health and social policy
Anthony Afe. Asekhauno
JNSS 2015, 6(3-4):145-155 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2015.017
Menstrual condition is a fact of womanhood, a source of discomfort but also the posterity of humanity. It is uncommon to think that if men had been natured in the way typical of women, the existing social or interpersonal, legal, political and cultural perceptions of menses would have been unpalatable to them - though this sounds male chauvinism. However, one cannot but recognize the fact that feminine physiological and physical natures and roles so definitively make a woman a unique being; this uniqueness inevitably and inextricably put women in the shackles of nature - with little physical/personal and social freedom. It is this idea of un-freedom...