Exploring the Adaptive Experience of Part-time Home Visit Nurses: A Qualitative Study

Abstract

Objective: This study described the adaptive experiences of part-time home-visit nurses.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 17 nurses who had more than one year of experience and had worked part-time for home-visit nursing agencies in the metropolitan area for over a year. Data were analyzed using the conventional content analysis method.

Results: The study participants indicated that some experiences, such as “common sense of nursing care acquired through experience in hospitals that does not work” and “difference from the self that I should have been able to be,” led to “difficulties in adapting to home-visit nursing.” In order to “cope with adaptation to home-visit nursing,” the participants took measures such as “thinking about the meaning of events” and “finding ways to improve my work” in order to create “a sense of adaptation to home-visit nursing.”

Conclusion: Helping nurses adapt to home-visit nursing may require hosting an orientation that enhances their readiness and offering work arrangements that take the nurses’ capabilities into consideration.