Practice of Home-Visit Nurses for Promoting Community Development

Abstract

Aim: To elucidate the practice of home-visit nurses for promoting community development to ascertain the educational implications of community development promotion through home-visit nurses toward realizing a cohesive community.

Methods: Data were collected using semi-structured interviews with seven home-visit nurses who are pioneering community development. The practice characteristics were qualitatively and descriptively analyzed.

Results: The practice of home-visit nursing for promoting community development was based on the practices of “Focus on individual nursing” and “Working at one’s own pace based on a broad, flexible mindset”, and was connected to the practice of “Spreading community connections” while receiving the interactions of the practices of “Creating spaces where people can be themselves without worries” and “Working to bring out the best of one’s abilities”. This further fostered the development of the practice of “Watching over the residents’ process to achieve their goals”.

Conclusion: The study found that the practice of home-visit nurses for promoting community development is based on the “individual” perspective and flexible creativity that is unrestricted by systems, and clarified that this is structured around the central practices of expanding community connections and watching over resident-centered efforts.