KNOWLEDGE OF PREMEDICAL FIRST AID REQUIRMENTS FOR TEACHERS IN NURSERY SCHOOL

Bachelor thesis ?Premedical First Aid Knowledge Requirements for Teachers in Nursery Schools? summarises urgent conditions and diseases occurring primarily among preschool children. The theoretical part deals with selected injuries, from the most serious injuries (resuscitation, disorders of consciousness, suffocation) to the less serious ones (eg fractures). Pathophysiology, symptoms and finally providing of first aid is briefly described for each of the injuries. This part was described mandatory legislation for teachers regarding first aid education in this section. I used a content analysis of professional publications in this part of my thesis. The second part is practical and related to my research. The aim of the research was to find out level of first aid knowledge among teachers in nursery schools. I used a quantitative method in the form of questionnaires in my research. The questionnaire consisted of fourteen questions. These questionnaires were filled mostly by teachers during personal meetings in nursery schools near my residence in Brno. The research is processed with the charts and descriptions. The results of the answers are given as a percentage in each graph. The hypothesis, established at the beginning of the research, was not confirmed. Teaching staff have sufficient knowledge of first aid. However, they have lacks in innovations piece of knowledge first aid (CPR, choking). In these cases, most teachers would act based on outdated standards. Primarily right answers dominated in further points of the questionnaire. My surprising finding was that half of those surveyed teachers had never undergone any first aid training