Well-informed patient - better colleague for glaucoma treatment

in English Intitution : Institute of Social medicine LF UK in HK Department of nursing Title of the thesis: Well informed patient - better colleague for glaucoma treatment Supervisor: Prof. PhDr. Jiří Mareš, CSc. Number of pages: 72 Year of the presentation: 2015 Key words: glaucoma, intraocular pressure, glaucous, glaucoma medication, education, role of the nurse, questionnaire, range of question, research My bachelor's thesis deals with the glaucoma disease which appears in the population all over the world. Literature states that it is the second-leading cause of blindness of people over 40 years old in the world. The most important prevention of such an impact as blindness is to detect and treat the glaucoma as soon as possible. The theoretical part of my work describes this disease, its subtypes, methods of investigation, diagnosis, and medical treatment