University of Pardubice, Faculty of Health Studies
Vít Blanař studied nursing in the Bachelor (2010) and Master (2012) programme at the Faculty of Health Studies of the University of Pardubice in the field of general nursing. In 2014, he earned the certificate in audiometry from the National Centre of Nursing and Non-medical Healthcare Studies in Brno. Vít Blanař got the Ph.D. degree in nursing at the Faculty of Health Studies (2017). In his postgraduate doctoral study, he focused on examination and assessment of persons with noise-induced impaired hearing, on the prevention of this occupational disease and on the role of an audiology nurse in the prevention of noise-induced hearing defects. Vít Blanař has been developing this topic in a long-term cooperation with the Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery of the Pardubice Hospital. He focuses on hearing screening of newborns by means of oto-acoustic emissions (OAE) or on the induced brain stem hearing potential, and on the communication difficulties and life quality of the hearing-impaired persons.
Vít Blanař has been teaching students of Bachelor and post-graduate Master´s non-medical healthcare programmes at the Department of Nursing of the Faculty of Health Studies of the University of Pardubice. At the same time, he works as an audiology nurse at the Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery of the Pardubice Hospital.
Besides impaired hearing, he engages in a long-term research of the healthcare quality in nutrition and in impaired swallowing. His recent research focuses on the screening methods for assessment of nutrition, keeping the recommended clinical procedures at malnutrition risk patients and on the specific care of insufficient nutrition endangered patients.
