Use NIC, NOC classification of clients with thoracic drainage.

The thesis deals with the application of NIC, NOC classifications in cases of patients with chest drainage. Nurses use nursing classification, nursing process and nursing documentation for their work to make the patient care more effective. Several objectives were set to meet the main target of the thesis. Firstly, to map nursing care specifics of patients with chest drainage; secondly, to map nurses' knowledge of chest drainage care; thirdly, to map nurses' satisfaction with nursing documentation; fourthly, to find out which NIC activities are usually used by nurses in the care of patients with chest drainage; fifthly, to find out which NOC indicators are usually judged by nurses in the care of patients with chest drainage; sixthly, to find out the benefits of NIC, NOC classification in the care of patients with chest drainage. For the practical part of the thesis, the combination of qualitative and quantitative research was chosen. The quantitative research was conducted by a survey. The studied group consisted of 152 nurses. For the quantitative research, we set up the following hypothesis. H1 - the care of patients with chest drainage depands on particular department. H2 - nurses' knowledge of chest drainage care depands on particular department. H3 - nurses' satisfaction with nursing documentation depends on their education. The qualitative reserch was hold in two phases. In the first phase, a nursing documentation was created on the basis of NIC and NOC classification related to care of chest tubes. In the second phase of the qualitative research, we used a semi-structured interview to interview ten nurse who had worked with the particular nursing documentation and who had met the criteria for the selection of experts acording to Fehring . Several research questions were set for the qualitative research. What do the nurses think about the particular nursing documentation