Barrier Nursing Care

Diploma thesis deals with barrier nursing. The theoretical part is focused on explanation of terms such as a barrier nursing and its components, process of disease transmission, and nosocomial infection itself. An empirical part of the thesis aims to find out how extensive knowledge about this problematic state registred nurses have got and whether they follow convention of hygienic and epidemiological principles properly. The research took place in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care and Intensive Care Unit and their subdivisions of University Hospital and District Hospital. The method of standardized questionnaire was used for data collection. The analyzed data proved information on level of knowledge of barrier nursing and how much the convention of hygienic and epidemiological principles is followed by state registred nurses. The research reveals that there is a space for barrier nursing improvement especially in isolated patients. A standard proposed in the thesis deals with this problem