Abstract
Few cases of experiences in discharge support in acute medicine have been reported. Here, we report a case in which an inexperienced nurse had a successful experience after participating in a discharge coordination conference. A qualitative approach was used to analyze a verbatim transcript of an interview with the nurse. Two top-level categories were extracted: “experience required for providing discharge support” and “experience acquired”. Six lower-level categories were extracted: “experience and images”, “knowledge of discharge support”, “lack of opportunities to provide discharge support”, “implementation of discharge support”, “opportunities to gather information”, and “coordination with other departments”. Acquiring and sharing information among multiple professions enabled the nurse to think about discharge support more practically and to clearly identify problems at discharge. The nurse had a sense of achievement and fulfillment from providing interventions to patients and their families from the early stage and thereby had a successful experience.
