Nursing care of intravenous ports in oncology

Port brings the patients added comfort during the medication, it also makes the work for the nurses easier and save them the time. This bachelor's work concerns issues of port treatment at the department of oncology. There is more and more patients with the ports that is why a treatment of them belongs to basic skills which should the nurses of the department of oncology have. In the first theoretical part of this bachelor's work is branch of oncology defined. The second part concerns venous entry. The third part is focused on the ports and their specifics. In a significant part of the work were inquired knowledge of the nurses in the area of port treatment. There were also compared differences between ambulatory and inaptient ward and laso was monitored measure of awareness of patients in the area of port treatment. Research aggregate was composed by five nurses from the inpatient ward, five nurses from the outpatient's department and three patients. With help of structured talk was accomplished a qualitative research. To the data processing was used a method of open encoding. Information was put into the particular categories. By the questioning were answered all the research questions. Nurses showed that they have sufficient knowledge of port treatment.They are interested in further education and some new experiences. Methods of port treatment are both in outpatient's department and inpatient ward almost the same. From the research follows concerning port implant that patients have got the feeling that they do not have enough information. In the area of treatment is the situation considerably better and the patients have got sufficient knowledge. In view of the fact that existing standard of port treatment at the department has not been updated for a time, a new "standard of port treatment" is performance of my bachelor's work (Annex 4)