ISBN: 978-80-7422-817-9 | DOI: 10.32725/zsf.2021.74228179

Využití měřicích nástrojů v ošetřovatelství

Valérie Tóthová (Ed.), Věra Hellerová (Ed.)

Measuring is a systematic quantification process of a person’s characteristics, or situation. Measuring is a part of scientific research and the assessment of a patient’s condition in the nursing process.
The research results of the project “Use of measuring instruments in nursing” became the basis for the presented monograph. The research implementation was financially supported by the Grant Agency of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice.
The structure of this monograph follows the project assignment. The chapter describing the methodology, sample files, their characteristics and data processing follows the introductory part. The third chapter describes the importance of measuring instruments in nursing, the procedure for selecting instruments, validity and reliability, and the system for creating new instruments. Individual phases of linguistic validation of measuring instruments are presented at the end of this chapter. The fourth chapter also pays great attention to the philosophy and understanding of the term “physical disability”, the development of terminology, physical disability classification, description of individual measuring instruments, and the use of measuring instruments in assessing the needs of physically disabled patients. The chapter presents the research results and uses the standardised World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0) instrument as well as one of our own construction. The fifth chapter focuses on measuring instruments for the complex assessment of elderly patients. The following chapters deal with measuring instruments in relation to pain assessment – in both surgical patients and children. The eighth chapter is extensive and focuses on the use of measuring instruments in assessing the health and quality of life of women in menopause. The next chapter deals with measuring the preparedness of medical students to provide palliative care. The tenth chapter describes the evaluation scales and instruments that are used in psychiatric care. The conclusion includes a comprehensive summary of the results that the experts obtained in the research. Their findings and recommendations for the use of assessment instruments can contribute to the improvement of nursing diagnostics and the subsequent provision of nursing care.
This monograph is intended for nurses, students, experts, and those interested in measuring instruments and their use in practice. It should help to clarify the importance of instruments for the objective assessment of patients’ health and needs. It should lead to the realisation that assessment instruments should facilitate nurses’ work and improve the quality of nursing care.

1. vydání. edition, Published: 2021, online: 2021, publisher: NLN, s. r. o., Praha