Norbert Domonkos

Research topic: The examination of the nurses' attitudes regarding death and fear of death in the view of socio-demographic variables and end of life care.

Research aim: to evaluate the effectiveness of education on the care of the dying patient. Further goal is to study the educational effectiveness in their attitudes, to survey knowledge of open communication with the dying and with the mourners. We also aim at mapping their conscious fear of death and the analysis of that with the assessed parameters. The final results of our research will show potential ways for the development of related skills, which may contribute to the reduction of anxiety.

Keywords: death, fear of death, nursing dying patients, communication, education

Kornélia Helembai CSc, Ph.D

Research topic 1: Counselling in nursing

The statutory duty of nursing is the development of the patient/client potential by using the knowledge of the area of counselling. Despite this, fairly small attention turns to this topic and large uncertainty can be experienced among nurses about the content and significance of the paramedical counselling.

Research aim: to uncover the essence of nursing theories from the aspect of paramedic counselling, as well as the most common implications and levels of counselling in different areas of nursing. A further objective is the analysis of the nurses' counselling knowledge and style and their expectations from the patients/clients, and the development of new test methods and training/retraining programs.

Keywords: paramedical counselling, nursing

Research topic 2: The career socialization stages and characteristics among nurses.

Career identification is the learning process by which individuals acquire the values ​​and norms of the professional role and rules of behaviour. The concept of professional nursing care includes not only the objective factual knowledge but interpersonal skills as well, whose combined application and successful delivery is professional competence.

Research aim: to uncover the adequacy of career requirements and expectations of the role partners in the preparation and the actual work phase. A further aim is to identify the factors whose emphasized appearance in training can reduce the abandonment of the job and/or the development of burnout syndrome, as well as the elements which may inhibit or enhance the effectiveness of working as nurse.

Keywords: career socialization, career identification, professional competence and career requirements, role expectations

Research topic 3: Characteristics of the nurse-patient/client relationship and the possibilities of the examination.

Although social roles are normatively regulated, the result is ultimately affected by both parties with their behaviour - however, in all cases, it is desirable that on the nursing part this should be manifested in adequate solution methods in the interest of preserving the patient's dignity, and self-identity and promoting their right of self-determination.

Research aim: to explore the nurses’ communication style, observable characteristics in their communication and the characteristics of the paramedical counselling conversation. A further aim is to develop testing methods for the area of nursing which can be used for the development of nurse training and for the development of the nursing culture of practitioners.

Keywords: nursing, communication style, paramedical counselling, patient management

Erika Nagy

Research topic: Patient safety issues in nursing.

We wish to examine the development of attitudes towards nursing counselling and patient safety and to examine the developmental impact of supervision on the above factors.

Research aims: Using the results of the research we can improve supervision, and thus we can introduce elements in nursing education which help nursing practice and ultimately safe nursing.

Keywords: nursing, patient safety, attitude, professional supervision

Mónika Oláh

Research topic 1: incorporation of complementary medicine into the care system in Hungary

Despite the fact that the holistic philosophy of care, which takes into account the psychosocial characteristics of the patients, has a large emphasis in the training of health professionals, it cannot be achieved in patient care. The penetration of complementary medicine is due to its ability to provide person-centred care and is able to meet the patients’ demand for psychotherapy in accordance with the principles of holistic philosophy of care. While healing methods of complementary medicine are different from the conventional methods, the goal is the same, to restore the sick man’s health, to eliminate complaints.

Research aim: to explore the factors that facilitate the integration of complementary medicine into the care system in Hungary.

Keywords: complementary medicine, holistic care, health care system

Research topic 2: Administering the nursing process, nursing documentation

Nursing documentation must include all the information that is related to the care of patients. The careful management of nursing documentation facilitates the evaluation and control of the activities carried out, as well as it is the basis for the establishment of professional responsibility, and it is the proof of compliance with the law. Since the introduction of the statutory regulation of nursing documentation, the legal requirements in this regard has not been put into practice.

Research aim: to explore to what extent the nursing documentation in the surveyed institutions meets the requirements of the law and what the conditions of the effective application of nursing documentation are. A further aim is to explore the relationship between the quality of nursing care documentation and the nurses’ attitudes related to administrative activities.

Keywords: nursing documentation, administration, nursing process

Angelika Szatmári

Research topics: changes in the expectations about the nursing role among health college students and practicing nurses.

The choice of helping professions needs special and essential traits on the individual's part. Nursing work requires well-trained employees with a sense of calling. With the career choice it will be possible for them to express their needs in preparation for the profession, and later self-realization will also be possible in the chosen career.

Research aim: to analyse the students' expectations of and attitudes to nursing roles, and to identify the factors which negatively affect the evolution and adequacy of the role of nurses.

Keywords: nursing roles, role expectations