Defining home care nursing

2022 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-49
Author(s):  
Marilyn D. Harris
Author(s):  
Noriko Morioka ◽  
Masayo Kashiwagi

Despite the importance of patient safety in home-care nursing provided by licensed nurses in patients’ homes, little is known about the nationwide incidence of adverse events in Japan. This article describes the incidence of adverse events among home-care nursing agencies in Japan and investigates the characteristics of agencies that were associated with adverse events. A cross-sectional nationwide self-administrative questionnaire survey was conducted in March 2020. The questionnaire included the number of adverse event occurrences in three months, the process of care for patient safety, and other agency characteristics. Of 9979 agencies, 580 questionnaires were returned and 400 were included in the analysis. The number of adverse events in each agency ranged from 0 to 47, and 26.5% of the agencies did not report any adverse event cases. The median occurrence of adverse events was three. In total, 1937 adverse events occurred over three months, of which pressure ulcers were the most frequent (80.5%). Adjusting for the number of patients in a month, the percentage of patients with care-need level 3 or higher was statistically significant. Adverse events occurring in home-care nursing agencies were rare and varied widely across agencies. The patients’ higher care-need levels affected the higher number of adverse events in home-care nursing agencies.


2020 ◽  
pp. 084456212094942
Author(s):  
Connie Schumacher ◽  
Aaron Jones ◽  
Andrew P. Costa

Background Home care patients are a growing group of community-dwelling older adults with complex care needs and high health service use. Adult home care patients are at high risk for emergency department (ED) visits, which is greater on the same day as a nursing visit. Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine whether common nursing indicators modified the association between nursing visits and same-day ED visits. Methods A case-crossover design within a retrospective cohort of adult home care patients in Ontario. Results A total of 11,840 home care nursing patients were analyzed. Home care patients who received a home nursing visit were more likely to go the ED afterhours on the same day with a stronger association for visits not admitted to the hospital. Having a urinary catheter increased the risk of a same-day ED visit (OR: 1.78 (95% CI 1.15–1.60) vs. 1.21 (95% CI 1.15–1.28)). No other clinical indicator modified the association. Conclusions The findings of this study can be used to inform care policies and practices for home care nurses in the management of indwelling urinary catheter complications. Further examination of system factors such as capacity and resources available to respond to catheter related complications in the community setting are recommended.


2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 1455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jung Ho Park ◽  
Mae Ja Kim ◽  
Kyung Ja Hong ◽  
Kyung Ja Han ◽  
Sung Ae Park ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eui Geum Oh ◽  
Hyun Joo Lee ◽  
Yukyung Kim ◽  
Ji Hyun Sung ◽  
Young-Su Park ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Tone Glad

Work enjoyment in home nursing This essay is a reflection on work enjoyment in home care nursing. Nurses describe working days that provide little pleasure. Work enjoyment tends to be the result of nurses’ relationship with colleagues and the people they are in contact with and care for. In interviews, home nurses describe busy days of physical and mental pressure to complete all their tasks. There is little enjoyment and a feeling of inadequacy in their work. They call for space for joy that gives them the possibility to achieve work satisfaction. An attempt is made to describe the factors that promote and constrain work enjoyment in nursing through reflection on home nurses’ experiences and the use of texts from the history of ideas and from nursing.


1988 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret B. Myers

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Luana Tonin ◽  
Maria R. Lacerda ◽  
Luciane Favero ◽  
Jaqueline D. Nascimento ◽  
Patricia K. Rocha ◽  
...  

The study was theoretically and philosophically guided by the Theory of Human Care, entailing the use of the Elements of the Clinical Caritas Process, having humanistic assumptions based on Home Care, and being operationalized by the following action steps: Initial Contact, Approaching, Transpersonal Encounter and Separation. It aimed to apply the Transpersonal Care Model in Home Care Nursing to children with special healthcare needs. Qualitative care-research (intervention), developed by means of five components: approaching the studied object; encounter with the cared-researched being; connections between theory and practice; separation from the researcher-caregiver being to the cared-researched being, and analysis of what has been learned by means of the General Analytical Strategy – Relying on theoretical propositions – and Specific Analytical Technique – Pattern Combination. The key results from the development of each one of the steps are, as follows: assumptions were applied 537 times, 322 usages of the Clinical Caritas Process, and 467 care needs were met by means of the model. The model potentialities were identified, understanding that it was built for the population at home care, thus enabling relation development, meeting their needs, and supporting nurses to foster care delivery.


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