著者

市川 かよ子

出版者

国立保健医療科学院

雑誌

保健医療科学 (ISSN:13476459)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.62, pp.549-551, 2013-10

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Objectives: This study aimed to obtain suggestions for human resource development for prefectural public health nurses (PHNs), by clarifying the actual situation of home visits by PHNs based on their ideas, experience, work environment, and "Technical skills of visit".Methods: In total,426 PHNs were surveyed via a web-based questionnaire (response rate: 42.7%). They worked full-time at prefectural health centers in metropolitan areas. After analyzing descriptive statistics, factors related to "technical skills of visit" were analyzed.Results: More than half of surveyed PHNs recognized the importance of the visit but could not visit enough. The level of "technical skills of visit" differed most between the middle-level and novice groups. Factors related to "technical skills of visit" were experience, their ideas, and total number of visits in the novice group, educational experience of rookie in the middle-level group, and work environment in the expert group.Discussion: At the prefectural health center, home visit cases are limited. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce the work environment by allowing "job rotation" and sharing the visit cases, because it is important to mature their "technical skills of visit".