Assoc. Prof. Petra Mandysova, RN, MSN, PhD
Department of Nursing
Email: Petra.Mandysova@upce.cz
phone +420 466 037 733
Research Interests:
- Patient and nurse education
- Translation and transcultural validation of tools for nursing clinical practice
- Evidence-based patient assessment by nurses
- Nursing dysphagia screening
- Pain instruments
Professional background:
Petra Mandysova was formally trained in Nursing, completing her BSc at McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1993), Master of Science at the University of Phoenix, USA (2007) and PhD at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic (2014). Her PhD research focused on the development and implementation of a dysphagia screening tool. In 2018, she became associate professor in nursing.
She became interested in neurosciences during her work at the Montreal Neurological Hospital / McGill University Health Centre (1991–2000) and became certified in neurosciences by the Canadian Nurses’ Association. In 2000, she joined an international team of health professionals and supported the effort of a newly opened hospital, the Shaikh Khalifa Medical Centre (SKMC) in Abu Dhabi, UAE, to obtain Canadian accreditation. During her five-year stint at SKMC, she was responsible for developing and implementing nursing and multidisciplinary standards and protocols. In 2006, she moved to the Faculty of Health Studies, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic where she teaches at the bachelor and master level and conducts nursing research. She has strengthened her international collaboration through her 2-year position at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. In 2023, she returned to Pardubice University to expand her research activities and to develop a Ph.D. study program in health sciences. She has also presented at nursing conferences in Europe, Asia, and North America and has lectured at universities across Europe and in the United States and Japan.
Her current research efforts focus on strengthening and furthering her international collaboration, mainly in the area of evidence-based patient assessment by nurses, patient and nurse education, and the development of research methodology in nursing. Examples include the development of a decision tree for the translation and linguistic validation of instruments and a documentation form (a translation protocol). The decision tree and documentation form were successfully tested in a research study in Finland. She is also interested in conducting systematic reviews, using Joanna Briggs Institute methodology.
Selected Publications
PARVIAINEN. A., …MANDYSOVA, P., and…VEHVILÄINEN-JULKUNEN, K. Nursing students’ genomics literacy: Basis for genomics nursing education course development. Teaching and Learning in Health, 2023, 18(1), 6-11.
GURKOVA, E., STUREKOVA, L., MANDYSOVA, P., SANAK, D. Factors affecting the quality of life after ischemic stroke in young adults: a scoping review. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2023, 21(1), DOI10.1186/s12955-023-02090-5.
KASPAROVÁ, P., MANDYSOVÁ, P. Translation and linguistic validation of self-reporting pain tools S-FPS, S-COS for children into Czech (Překlad a lingvistická validace sebehodnotících nástrojů bolesti u dětí S-FPS, S-COS do českého jazyka). Zdravotnické Listy, 2023, 11(1), 63-68.
