Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the present status of the cooperation between clinics and visiting nursing stations in Tohoku area, and the recognition of visiting nursing, needs of utilization and the state of delivering potential visiting nursing services in clinic physicians and managers of visiting nursing stations in order to consider PR activity to increase users of visiting nursing.
About 80 % of the clinic physicians and the managers of visiting nursing stations answered that mutual cooperation was very good or good, and there was no significant difference between them concerning the answers. However, the clinic physicians needed 24 hour systems and clients’ and these families’ information, while the managers of stations considered that a function to continue clients’ lives at home was important, showing a difference in answers between them. The potential services that clinic physicians wanted to use had already been delivered or could be delivered by visiting stations.
These results demonstrate that visiting nursing stations should know what clinic physicians request to visiting nursing stations, strengthen the cooperation and develop new visiting nursing services and PR activity about possible services to clinic physicians.
