The importance of mental health among nurse working in infectious wards.

The topic of this bachelor thesis is "The importance of mental health among nurse working in infectious wards". The thesis consists of a theoretical and practical part. The concepts regarding to the thesis are explained in detail in individual chapters and subchapters. Further, the thesis focuses at the nurse profession, nurse personality, mental hygiene, infection ward, psychological stress, burnout syndrome and its therapy. The practical part of the thesis is processed as quality research. The aim of this piece of work was to find out the importace of mental hygiene at the nurse working at the infection ward. The following research questions were set out: 1. What importance do nurses working at the infection ward ascribe to mental hygiene? 2. In which areas do nurses working at the infection ward care for their mental hygiene? The data collection took place in the form of semi-structured interviews that were conducted with nurses from the infectious ward in two hospitals. The research file consists of 20 respondents, their choice was intentional and took place using the method of snowball sampling. The data collection took place in the period of April and May 2016 and was finished at the time of theoretical saturation. The topics of the interview were: mental hygiene, lifestyle, eating, relaxation and rest, stress and interpersonal relationships. A total of 11 major categories were processed, each subcategory belonging to each category, and codes were created for each subcategory. It can be seen from the results that all nurses are sufficiently theoretically oriented by mental hygiene, healthy lifestyle and eating, but not every nurse cares well for her mental health.. The output of this thesis is information material, which is intended not only for the professional but also for the non-professional public