Nursing care of patients with sicca syndrome

The bachelor thesis is aimed at the nursing care of the patients with the sicca syndrome. The sicca syndrome is illness which is divided into primary and secondary syndrome. The primary syndrome is separated illness which can be also named "sicca syndrome". The secondary syndrome is usually connected to another disease. More frequently women than men, in most cases women in age from 40 to 56, are afflicted by the disease. A cause of the disease has not been known but could be related to age, hormones, medicaments or various eye diseases. The sicca syndrome patients are often afflicted for all their life. Main therapy of the sicca syndrome patients are men-made teardrops, which are used by patients according to their own needs. The nursing care of the sicca syndrome patients is primarily focused on home car. Therefore it is important to patients have enough information of regime precaution. The bachelor thesis is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The research part was aimed on differences of the nursing care. They were set two objects of our research according to the subject of the thesis. The task of the bachelor thesis was to find the differences of the nursing care of sicca syndrome patients. According to the aim we set three research questions: What are the differences of the sicca syndrome nursing care? What information do the sicca syndrome patients have? How do the patients keep the regime at home? This thesis used qualitative research. Data were collected by a semi-structured interview. The research was performed on eight sicca syndrome patients. The research was realized in March and April 2015. The patients were interviewed by fifteen questions which were supplemented by additional sub-questions during the interview. Qualitative data were analyzed and grouped into categorized groups and then evaluated. Based on the results of the research it was made material, which gives basic information of the disease for nurses. The material should be published at the eye specialists or eye departments as well as rheumatology departments. It should help nurses to know what is the nursing care of the sicca syndrome patients in case of their hospital admission