Construct of “Individuality” Perceived by Nursing Care Workers:

A Qualitative Interview Study

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The research objective is to clarify the awareness of nursing care workers how they perceive “Individuality” of users and what they actually do to respect “individuality” when providing cares. We had semi-structured interview among 20 nursing care workers who worked at care welfare facilities over three years. We prepared verbatim and qualitatively analyzed data using inductive approach. As a result, we had 52 codes, 13 sub-categories and 6 categories, and found that nursing care workers provide essential care “now” and “here” for individual users. The word, “individuality” includes the consistency sought when providing cares and the uniqueness of individual nursing care workers with a certain balance, and this shows unique relationship of users and nursing care workers.