Developing an Effective Education Program for Home Visit Nurses Helping Clients with Schizophrenia

Abstract

This study is aimed at developing an educational program for home visit nurses helping clients with schizophrenia and evaluating its appropriateness. The education program was based on the concepts of effective home visit nursing for clients with schizophrenia. Four novice home visit nurses helping the clients were given the educational program. The program was evaluated by ①describing the process of the nurses’ learning and ②examining the Life Assessment Scale for the Mentally Ⅲ（LASMI） of clients to whom the participating nurses provided care. The resulting data was analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively．

The nurses’ learning process showed that the basic attitude of the nurses in psychiatric home care was formulated not only during the program lectures but also during their clinical experiences after the lectures. ln terms of the lnterpersonal Relationship， LASMI's scores improved in all of the clients of the panicipating nurses．

The results show this program is effective in educating the participating home visit nurses helping clients with schizophrenia. The educational program for psychiatric home care needs to reflect this： the clinical experiential period should be incorporated as part of the program．