Publications by authors named "Elena Gurkova"

Background: Limited evidence of young adult patient-reported outcomes and experiences after ischaemic stroke has been conducted.

Aim: To investigate the meaning of the lived experiences of stroke patients in working age 12-24 months after their first IS.

Material And Methods: The exploratory qualitative study used an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) design.

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Aim: The study aimed to measure and compare differences (a) in the unfinished nursing care interventions overall and the order in which they are left unfinished; and (b) in the underline reasons, as perceived by Italian, Slovak and Turkish nursing students.

Background: In recent years, in the nursing education context a novel line of research in the field of unfinished nursing care as those interventions required by patients, but omitted or delayed, has emerged. However, no studies have been conducted at the international level.

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Objectives: The aim of the study was to synthesize the body of knowledge on the factors that are important to the process of returning to work after ischaemic stroke in young adults under 55 years of age.

Methods: Guidelines regarding the scoping review methodology developed by the Joanna Briggs Institute, and the PRISMA checklist for scoping reviews were used. A total of 2,249 studies were identified through a bibliographic search in six databases.

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Aim: To investigate the prevalence, patterns and reasons for unfinished nursing care as perceived by nursing students.

Background: Unfinished nursing care (UNC) is a frequently observed phenomenon in the acute care setting. To date, studies have focused primarily on the perspective of nurses or patients, but another important perspective is that of nursing students who provide nursing care in all healthcare settings.

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Objective: To examine nurse managers' perspectives on missed nursing care (MNC) on surgical units.

Background: The phenomenon of MNC is an important concern for nurse researchers. However, the reality of how it is experienced by clinical nurse managers is largely unexplored.

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Introduction: Ischemic stroke (IS) may have impact on long-term health-related quality of life (HRQoL) even in the patients with good clinical outcome, and tools mostly used for the assessment of outcome may underestimate or not reflect all relevant sequels after IS. We aimed to analyze HRQoL in the patients with excellent outcome after IS.

Methods: We analyzed consecutive IS patients enrolled in the prospective FRAILTY study (ClinicalTrials.

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Background: Trust is an essential phenomenon of relationship between patients and healthcare professionals and can be described as an accepted vulnerability to the power of another person over something that one cares about in virtue of goodwill toward the trustor. This characterization of interpersonal trust appears to be adequate for patients suffering from chronic illness. Trust is especially important in the context of chronic cardiovascular diseases as one of the main global health problems.

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Aim: To examine the overall level of self-assessed competence of final-year nursing 'bachelors' degree students in the Czech Republic. In addition, the study aimed at the factors associated with the students' level of competence.

Design: A cross-sectional observational study.

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Purpose: To synthesize the body of knowledge on the factors influencing the quality of life (QoL) after ischemic stroke (IS) in young adults.

Methods: Guidelines regarding the scoping review methodology developed by the Joanna Briggs Institute, and the PRISMA-ScR checklist for a scoping review was used in this paper. A total of 1197 studies were identified through a bibliographic search in Web of Science, MEDLINE, PsycInfo, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and ProQuest Science Database.

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Background: Stressors among nursing students arise from both academic activities and clinical placement. Understanding how nursing students perceive academic and clinical stressors and the clinical learning environment could help develop useful approaches to reducing levels of stress and contribute to the maintenance of a good learning environment. There is a paucity of studies that investigated associations between the clinical learning environment and the stress of nursing students.

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Objectives: The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought commercial, social, and economic consequences in every country that has experienced substantial SARS-CoV-2 infection rates. The complete change in the environment that took place due to the outbreak of the pandemic can lead to stressful situations, especially among healthcare personnel.

Material And Methods: The research were conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic between the 27 March 2020 and the 20 April 2020.

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Background And Purpose: Only a limited number of items involved in missed nursing care inventories specifically focused on infection control practices. The study aimed to adapt and evaluate psychometric properties of the Czech and Slovak version of the Infection Control Missed Care survey; and to assess and compare the amount, type,and reasons for missed nursing care in infection prevention and control amongCzech and Slovak nurses.

Methods: The convenience sample of 1459 nurses from the Czechand Slovak republic was recruited.

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Background: Studies performed in Central European countries showed a high prevalence of missed nursing care in various clinical settings before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Aims: The aim of the study was to investigate which domains of the work environment were significant predictors of missed nursing care activities in Czech hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was used.

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Aim: This study aimed to quantify types and frequencies of missed infection control care and to develop a theoretical model for estimating nurses' consensus scores about this form of missed care.

Design: A non-experimental research design using self-audit data was selected to collect information about the types and frequencies of missed infection control care from nurses employed in hospitals located in three different countries. Data collection commenced mid-year 2018.

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Aims And Objectives: To investigate hospital, unit and staff variables as the correlates of missed nursing care (MNC) in Czech hospitals.

Background: There is a considerable variability in patterns of MNC across different hospital, unit and staff characteristics.

Design: A cross-sectional study was conducted.

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Background: Nursing students are required to spend a significant portion of their educational preparation in clinical practice. Because of the prevalence of missed or rationed care, it seems irrefutable that students are exposed to rationed care during their practice placement, or that they contribute to its prevalence either actively or passively.

Objectives: The study aimed to discover how nursing students interpret the concept of rationed care, and their experiences of rationing in practice.

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Aim: To examine variations in the safety climate reported by nurses in Slovak hospitals and to analyse the association between dimensions of the patient safety climate and demographic and organisational factors.

Background: A deeper understanding of how safety climate varies across hospitals can be useful in determining areas with a potential for improvement. Staffing and non-punitive response to errors were identified in recent research syntheses as the weakest dimensions of safety climate that require strengthening.

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Aims: To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Perceived Implicit Rationing of Nursing Care (PIRNCA) instrument and to report the prevalence of rationed care at university and faculty hospitals.

Design: A cross-sectional study.

Methods: The study was carried out at two university and five faculty hospitals in the Slovak Republic.

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Background: Dignity is a fundamental concept in healthcare. The symptoms of multiple sclerosis have a negative effect on dignity. Understanding of lived experience of dignity in people with multiple sclerosis is crucial to support dignity in practice.

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Aim: The main aim of the research was to describe and compare unfinished nursing care in selected European countries.

Background: The high prevalence of unfinished nursing care reported in recently published studies, as well as its connection to negative effects on nurse and patient outcomes, has made unfinished care an important phenomenon and a quality indicator for nursing activities.

Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was undertaken.

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Aim: The aim of the study was to adapt and validate the perceived implicit rationing of nursing care instrument in the Slovak nurse work environment and to evaluate the prevalence of unfinished nursing care in acute care hospitals.

Background: The measurement of unfinished nursing care could be assumed as a proxy indicator of nurse staffing adequacy or higher risk of adverse events.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey design was used.

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Aims: To investigate how nursing experts and experts from other health professions understand the concept of rationing/missed/unfinished nursing care and how this is compared at a cross-cultural level.

Design: The mixed methods descriptive study.

Methods: The semi-structured questionnaires were sent to the sample of 45 scholars and practitioners from 26 countries.

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The purpose of the cross-sectional descriptive study was to explore and compare the students' experiences of the clinical environment and supervision in Slovakia. Students' clinical learning experience were measured by the valid and reliable clinical learning instrument. A higher frequency of successful supervisory experience was found in the universities which provided accredited mentor preparation programmes or courses and individualised supervisory approaches.

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Patients' cognitions about their disease and treatment are important mediators between health and quality of life of patients with chronic diseases and also explain the occurrence of individual differences in individuals' adjustment to chronic disease. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between illness cognitions and health-related quality of life among adult patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Self-report data on illness cognition and health-related quality of life were collected from 118 people with Crohn disease or ulcerative colitis.

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