This is the collection of scientific papers from the conference titled Health – the driving force of nursing without borders in PDF, which was held in Piešťany in 2018.

At a certain point, often at a certain age, we all feel that we are immortal. And then? Then we fall ill and for health we would happily trade nearly everything... Health is the most important and most valuable asset of human life. Health or robust health is something we mutually wish each other at various celebrations, whether personal, life-related, or connected with the New Year or the birth of a child.

Health is generally recognized in society as an indicator of its advancement in healthcare, the economy, politics and culture. In the contributions of this scientific proceedings volume, we have tried to provide readers with so-called health literacy, which can be understood as the ability of individuals to obtain, process and understand information and situations related to health and/or the healthcare system and to be able to make appropriate decisions in these situations. Health literacy is one of the factors that shape attitudes toward health and lead individuals to healthy behavior.

The understanding of the concept of health depends on the society in which a person lives, on the cultural environment, is linked to education and a person’s value system, and from this arise expectations regarding healthcare and nursing care as well. Health and people’s behavior cannot be separated from each other. Health is to a large extent indeed in “our hands”; it is one of the basic metaparadigms and is the driving force of nursing without borders.

In this peer-reviewed scientific proceedings, contributions of a professional and scientific nature by authors from Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Austria, thematically focused on health, spa nursing care and quality in nursing practice, are published. The compilers of the proceedings—editor, reviewers and authors—offer the professional public, healthcare workers from various clinical disciplines, but also nursing students with useful knowledge, advice and experience. The selection of scientific works is the result of nursing scientific research activity of nurses working in academic settings and clinical practice.

For the author collective
doc. PhDr. Viera Hulková, PhD.

Contents

Balúchová Martina
Strategies for change management as a condition of healthcare facility development

Biró Klocháňová Stanislava, Biró Csaba
Atherosclerosis from the perspective of autoimmunity

Bušovská Miroslava, Kilíková Mária
Management of nursing care for a pediatric patient with intoxication

Dimunová Lucia
Health literacy as a key determinant of health

Fojtlínová Iveta, Zonová Andrea
Possibilities of preventive health care in the natural therapeutic spa Smrdáky

Funtová Veronika
Racism and prejudice in healthcare facilities

Geľhošová Iveta, Kilíková Mária
Quality of life of a patient with mental disorder – alcoholism

Hrdinková Jana
Specifics of nursing care in Mariánské Lázně spas

Hulková Viera
ABeCeDa in health literacy

Jaklová Milada
Maintaining health in homes for seniors

Kilíková Mária
Nursing in healthcare for marginalized communities – theoretical starting points of the issue

Korcová Soňa
Analysis of internal audit in a selected spa facility

Macková Zuzana
Health development in the context of the vision of the Secondary Health School in Skalica

Miklovičová Emília, Kristová Jarmila
The aggressive patient—communication strategies versus work experience in nursing practice

Orlovská Otília, Kilíková Mária, Mesárošová Lucia
Management of acute conditions by a specialist nurse without physical contact with the patient

Ratajová Radka
Audits and their contribution to nursing

Raková Jana
Nurses’ participation in prevention and activities in health promotion

Rottková Jana
Motivation of nurses working in nursing practice

Šoltésová Mária, Ševčovičová Andrea
Effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on the recovery of hearing disorders

Šulcová Petra
Risk management in the Karlovy Vary Regional Hospital


Title of the proceedings: Health – the driving force of nursing without borders
Number of pages: 245
Editor: doc. PhDr. Viera Hulková, PhD.
Author: Collective of authors
Reviewers:
prof. PhDr. Mária Kilíková, PhD.
PhDr. Veronika Funtová
Publisher: Vysoká škola zdravotníctva a sociálnej
práce Sv. Alžbety, n.o. Bratislava
Detached workplace of bl. Sáry Salkaháziová in Rožňava
Year of publication: 2018
ISBN 978-80-8132-184-9