2012 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 68-75
Our goal is development of “the urinary catheter management training program for visiting nurses”. Therefore, to clarify in which aspects visiting nurses have difficulty performing catheter management of long-term indwelling urinary catheter users, we carried out a questionnaire survey of 30 managers of home-visit nursing stations, using the placement method. When descriptive contents of the experience of dif ficulty were analyzed by Berelson’s content analysis technique, the following categories in the descending order of frequency were obtained: difficulty in assessment and handling of complications and troubles related to indwelling catheter use; difficulty in education of patients and caregivers; difficulty in the use of catheter-related materials; difficulty in cooperating with physicians; difficulty in catheter insertion and removal procedures; and difficulty related to catheter management by home care staff other than healthcare professionals. In order to provide an adequate training program, careful study of the contents and nature of the experience of difficulty is necessary.
