The use of the nursing model by V. Henderson in care of a child client

Contemporary nursing care of children is based on the holistic approach aimed at the satisfaction of needs. Nurses in the majority of health facilities use documentation developed by M. Gordon. The nursing model by Virginia Henderson, however, is actually much better suited to the identification and subsequent satisfaction of children's needs. This model belongs to the category of models of needs and of humanistic models. A child's needs are divided into 14 basic domains in this model. The present bachelor's thesis describes a study of the use of nursing documentation based on Henderson's nursing model at the Department of Babies, University Hospital in Plzeň. In Part 1, the quasi-experimental method {--} observation method was applied to data processing. The research group included in-patient children at the Department of Babies. Part 2 of the research was quantitative, based on answers to questions asked by means of a questionnaire. Here the research group included nurses working at the Department of Babies, University Hospital in Plzeň