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The bachelor's thesis is dedicated to the use of sipping in healthcare. It evaluates sipping by hospitalized patients and nurse's cooperation with nutritional therapists and their general awareness. The most common cause of inability to eat are extensive surgery, injuries, tumours, or infections. After intestinal peristalsis is restored, it is possible to start taking enteral nutrition and one of the procedures is to use sipping. Sipping is a liquid supplement with a precisely defined composition of nutrients. Sipping does not replace food, as some are frequently mistaken it only complements the basic diet. Sipping supplements are intended for drinking between meals and are widely available at the pharmacy. This bachelor thesis is divided into theoretical and empirical parts. The aim of this work is to map non-medical healthcare professional's sipping knowledge and to investigate whether they use sipping as a supplement in their patient's treatments. Three hypotheses were established for these purposes. The bachelor's empirical part dealt with confirmation or refusal of these established hypotheses. For this thesis, I chose a quantitative method of data collection which was in the form of a questionnaire survey in three selected subjects. All data then were transferred to Microsoft Excel and sent to statistician who processed and evaluated it. The results are presented in this thesis. The research revealed that the collaboration between nutritional therapists and non-medical health professionals is not as sufficient as I thought it should be. Majority of nurses are aware of the term sipping and have basic knowledge. In the patient wards sipping is used as a dietary supplement, but the benefit of sipping as a treatment is rarely evaluated. |
