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Aim. The primary purpose was to map the opinions and experiences nurses acquired during the COVID-19 pandemic, identify significant problems that need to be addressed before the next pandemic, and determine the prestige of nurses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Material and methods. The design was descriptive and cross-sectional. A representative sample using sociological research methods was conducted using a non-standardized questionnaire. The sample of nurses was constructed using quota sampling; its structure corresponded to the composition of the overall nursing population in terms of age, sex, and region. The sample consisted of 1197 nurses. Results. The most significant changes reported by nurses during this period include increased physical workload (89.6%), changes in social (88.4%), and personal lives (76.7%). According to respondents, the prestige of their profession increased during the pandemic compared to the period before the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the two-tailed t-test, the prestige of the nursing profession increased statistically significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the pre-pandemic period. Conclusions. During the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses experienced increased physical stress and changes in their social and personal lives. However, the prestige of nurses increased due to their crucial role in the fight against the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Proper medication administration in relation to beverage or food is one of the essential tools to achieve the pharmacotherapy goals. It is not known whether this is also considered in the care of inpatients. The aim of this study was to describe and analyse the current practice of medication administration in relation to food and beverages to patients hospitalized in four hospitals in the Czech Republic. This study was conducted based on the results of the first phase of a prospective observation study focused on the safety of medication administration performed by nurses. All data, including the timing of medication administration in relation to food and the data on beverages used, were obtained by the method of direct observation. The team of observersaccompanied the nurse during medication administration. The appropriateness of the medication administration in relationto food/beverages was assessed according to the summary of product characteristics and the published literature. In total, the administration of 5718 oral medications and 198 insulins were analysed. Unproper food timing wasobserved in 15.7% of oral medication administrations and 26.8% of insulin administrations. The highest number ofunproper food timing occurred in the proton pump inhibitors, antihypertensives, and prokinetics. Tea (63.4%) was the most used beverage. Errors with clinically serious impact have been observed in some groups of drugs. The necessity of a systemic approach in management of medication administration is required including interdisciplinary cooperation.

Drug administration is one of the riskiest areas of healthcare provision, accompanied by several possible mistakes. Patient and family involvement is crucial for patient safety in a hospital environment. The research study aimed to evaluate the subjective perception of the safety of the drug administration process from hospitalized patients point of view and their involvement in drug administration. A structured questionnaire of its own design was used to obtain data. Three hundred twenty-nine respondents from 4 hospitals in the South Bohemian Region in the Czech Republic were included in the research, including patients hospitalized in the internal medicine, surgery, and follow-up and rehabilitation care departments. We found different perceptions and individual understandings of the safety of the drug delivery process by other groups of patients. Interest in participating in drug administration also varies between groups of patients. Women control the medication given to them by the nurse to a much greater extent than men. Patients under the age of 60, patients with higher professional and university education, and patients from the surgical department would like to be more involved in deciding which aplikovadrugs to use. Patients with a low level of education want to involve their family members more in their treatment decisions. Both healthcare professionals and patients should be led by hospital management to increase patient involvement in the hospitalization process.

A medication error is one of the most common causes of patients complications or death in healthcare facilities. In the United States, 7,000 out of 9,000 patients die because of medication errors each year. Known factors are generally divided into four groups - human factor, intervention, technical factor, and system. Our study includes 17 studies from the OVID, Web of Science, Scopus, and EBSCO databases, in the range of 2015-2020. After a selection of professional publications, 2 categories were created - factors leading to medication errors and interventions to reduce medication error and testing their effectiveness. It has been found that human factor always plays a role, often supported by a poorly set-up system. The most mistakes are made in documentation, administration technique or accidental interchange of patients. The most frequently mentioned factors include nurses overload, high number of critically ill patients, interruptions in the preparation or in the administration of medications, absence of the adverse event reporting system, non-compliance with guidelines, fear, and anxiety. Another evidence of medication error is in the application of intravenous drugs, where an interchange of drugs or patients due to interruption occurs as well. Sufficient education of nurses and an adequate system of preparation and administration of drugs, for example using bar codes, are considered as an appropriate intervention.

Objectives: Cardiovascular diseases constitute the main cause of disability and premature death worldwide. Those diseases will continue to endanger health unless the public understands clearly and completely which risk factors contribute to the development of these diseases and what they can do to avoid these risks. This article assesses the understanding of risk factors that can lead to the development of heart and vessel diseases., Methods: A non-standardized questionnaire was used for data collection. The respondents expressed their opinions on influenceable factors using a five-degree Likert scale. The research set included 1,992 respondents. Data were statistically analyzed using the SASD program, version 1.4.12. To calculate the level of dependence of the selected characteristics, the Wallis, and Spearman correlation coefficients were calculated. The goodness-of-fit χ2 was applied as well., Results: The results show that 66.8% of respondents go walking for at least 30 minutes on 5 or more days per week. Respondents from lower age groups reported significantly more (p < 0.001) walking. The comparison of mean values showed that Czech citizens aged 40 or more years express the highest agreement with the statement that they could prevent heart and vessel diseases by modifying their eating habits. The results further showed that 25.8% of Czech citizens smoked and that men smoked significantly more (29.6%) than women (22.5%). More than one-half (60.1%) reported drinking alcohol occasionally; the remaining respondents reported drinking alcohol 3-4 times a month or more often. Men reported drinking beer significantly more often (p < 0.001) than women, while women reported drinking wine significantly more often (p < 0.001) than men., Conclusions: Respondents aged 40 or more years were aware of some, but not all, of the risk factors that can influence the development of cardiovascular diseases. They accepted that they could prevent heart and vessel diseases by modifying their eating habits, however, their opinions regarding exercise differed from professional recommendations. Two-thirds of the respondents stated that smoking could also influence heart and vessel diseases. The study suggests that primary care providers need to put more effort into educating their patients regarding steps that can be to influence their own health.

Objective: Cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of deaths. Cardiovascular mortality is influenced by several factors that can be changed by our behaviour. The goal of this study was to survey the opinions of physicians and nurses on the topic of preventative cardiovascular risk factors., Methods: The inquiry was carried out using a standardized structured interviewer-respondent interview (face-to-face). The final form of the interview was based on the results of a pre-investigation. The study was anonymous, participation was voluntary, and the actual interview did not contain any controversial ethical questions. To meet these goals, a non-standardized questionnaire for nurses and physicians was developed. The questions evaluated the interest, coping difficulties, and efficiency of multimodal interventions in practice. The study sample included 1000 physicians and 1000 nurses. The results were statistically evaluated., Results: The survey of physician and nurse opinions showed that patients were primarily interested in interventions in the area of nutrition, weight loss, and coping with pharmacotherapy; however, the overall lack of interest in smoking cessation was a surprising result. Physicians and nurses viewed smoking cessation as the most difficult risk factors to influence, followed by nutrition changes, and weight loss. It was noteworthy that more than half of the interviewed physicians and nurses were of the opinion that behavioral interventions were only sometimes or rarely effective., Conclusion: The results of our study show that nurses and physicians largely agree on behavioral risk factors and how to influence them. Nurses and physicians in Czech health care generally agree that patients are interested in influencing the above risk factors, being least interested in exercise and smoking cessation. Nurses and physicians also consider smoking reduction and weight loss as particularly difficult risk factors to manage. Results from this study will contributed to the overall goal of preparing and implementing short-term and long-term interventions in preventive cardiology.

Objectives: The goal of this article was to assess the delivery of patient health-education, relative to cardiovascular disease from the perspective of physicians and nurses, as well as from the perspective of citizens living in the Czech Republic., Methods: The article is based on data acquired from the "Intervention procedures in preventive cardiology" grant project. To evaluate patient health education, non-standardized questionnaires intended for physicians (n = 1000) and nurses (n = 1000) were used. A combination of a non-standardized questionnaire and a standardized questionnaire (SF-36) was used to assess citizen (n = 1992) viewpoints. The actual investigation took place from April 1 to April 20, 2016 and was implemented over the entirety of the Czech Republic. Data were analyzed using the SASD v. 1.4.12 program. Both first and second degree sorting was used. The degree of dependence of selected characteristics was established based on the Chi-square test and the T-test., Results: A bit more than half (53.1%) of the physicians indicated that nurses carried out patient education regarding influenceable risk factors associated with cardiovascular diseases, while 71.6% of nurses reported carrying out this duty. The overwhelming majority of physicians (97.1%) and nurses (92.3%) report informing patients about how to improve their health condition. Citizen respondents reported that topics such as nutrition, exercise, smoking cessation, stress reduction, and the drug side effects use were discussed with them more frequently by physicians than by nurses. Citizen respondents reported that nutrition was discussed most frequently with them, while the issue of smoking cessation was discussed the least frequently., Conclusion: Our analysis showed that physicians engage in patient education more frequently than nurses. At the same time, results suggest that a relatively significant number of physicians and nurses rarely or never educate regarding risk factors associated with cardiovascular diseases.

Objectives: The aim of this research into 'self-management' was to determine to what extent respondents were aware of their status as overweight or obese. For respondents who indicated that they were overweight or obese, the goal was to determine whether they tried to lose weight, what steps they took to control their, and what specific methods they used., Methods: Information was collected using semi-structured interviews from May 31, 2014, to January 30, 2015. Data processing was performed using statistical analysis of the social data SASDM 01/04/10 software. The total study group consisted of 600 respondents, including 302 from the Roma minority, and 298 from the non-Roma majority population (control group). Respondents were selected specifically from South Bohemia Region of the Czech Republic. The sample from the Roma minority was constructed using the snowball method (Snowball Sampling). The control sample of non-Roma was selected through quota sampling., Results: The results indicate that the respondents from both the Roma minority and the non-Roma control group generally recognized when they were overweight or obese, or they were aware of it to a much lesser extent than objective indicators revealed. More than two thirds of the respondents who admitted they were overweight or obese (N = 143) reported that they had suffered from overweight or obesity since they were young adults. Significantly more members of the majority population had tried to lose weight using self-management, whereas the level of effort was significantly less among members of the Roma minority (P = 0). Nevertheless, Roma respondents significantly more often reported (P < 0.01) that they had agreed on a specific weight loss plan with a doctor., Conclusion: The results of our research show that in the context of prevention, it is important to promote self-managed skills, habits and other characteristics that can play an important role in the prevention and treatment of obesity and overweight.

Objectives: According to published reports from the WHO, health care is undergoing a transformation that reflects the increasing importance of community care based on social, group, and individual needs. Community health care is provided by multidisciplinary teams, with nurses occupying irreplaceable positions. Nurse competencies constitute significant potential in the area of community based preventive care as well as the more traditional roles in treatment and recovery., Methods: Data was obtained from health care professionals and the public through a structured interview. The study population included 1,007 physicians, 1,005 nurses and 2,022 laypersons. Respondents were selected randomly with the aid of quotas. The parameters for the selection of health care workers (nurses and physicians) were constructed based on registration data from the Institute of Health Information and Statistics. Layperson selection was based on data from the Czech Statistical Office. The Statistical Analysis of Social Data program (version 1.4.4) was used to process the data, which was in the form of 1st and 2nd degree contingency tables. The dependence level was determined based on χ2 and other testing criteria (according to the character of the signs)., Results: The results show that respondents perceive the concept of a "community nurse" as a nurse working independently in local neighborhoods and communities. Results also showed that work in senior care, followed by home care, and care for chronically ill patients were the most preferred. A role for nurses in health care education centers was only supported by 13.1% of physicians, 13.8% of nurses, and 6.8% of laypersons. The results also reveal that community nursing is perceived by both health care professionals and laypersons as fieldwork (i.e. work not based in a hospital or clinic environment), yet, at the same time, it was perceived as work that dealt with people needing health care. The results also reflect the opinion that the establishment of an independent nurse in the workplace (in the form of preventive care) could lead to an increase in the quality of care for employees (65.7% of physicians and 70.8% of nurses), an improvement in workplace health education (33% of physicians and 34.7% of nurses) and would provide support for healthy work environments (31.4% of physicians and 30.4% of nurses)., Conclusion: Our results lead us to conclude that the health care system in the Czech Republic needs to better utilize the potential of trained nurses in the field of community health care. Additionally, steps need to be taken to increase job opportunities and staffing for nurses wanting to work in community health and preventive care.