Nursingl Assistant - contribution to the quality of professional nursing care

The diploma is focused on a status of adhering to medical assistent?s competence. Contribution and use of this profesion in modern professional nursing is ambiguous and problematic in nursing practice. Nurse managers, nurses and medical assistents had participated in this survey. The survey took part, with head nurse?s approval, in hospitals of Central Bohemian region and Prague. The diploma is dividend into two parts, theoretical and practical. In practical part we have chosen to use a quantitative survey method. Then we have used a questionnaire method to collect data. Questionnaires were anonymous. The first group consisted of nurse managers in a count of 90 (100%) respondents. The sekond group consisted of nurses and medical assistents in a count of 181 (100%) respondents. The first goal of the diploma was to discover how medical assistents competence is being fulfilled according to legal standards. The survey discovered that medical assistents assignments are above standard legal competence. After proccessing the results of the quantitative survey, the first theory, that medical assistents are instructed to adhere to their competence, was disproved. The second goal was to assess the status of medical assistents in current professional nursing. In our survey we?ve defined a theory, that medical assistent?s competence contributes to an efficiency of a whole medical team. Results discovered, that medical asistent is an adequate member of a medical team, this theory was confirmed. The last goal of the diploma was to find out management point of view on use and involvement of this non-medical profesion in providing a high-quality nursing care. The third theory of the survey, that management prefers nurses to medical assistents, was also confirmed. These results confirm the current situation of this issue. Discovered results will be provided to medical facilities as a self-reflective and nursing activity improving materials