2024 Volume 43 Issue 3 Pages 423-429
To clarify the role of life nursing care facilities in our corporation and to understand how the occupational therapist is recognized and required to play a role in life nursing care, an interview was conducted with two service managers. As a result of data analysis using the modified grounded theory approach, fourteen concepts were produced. These concepts were classified into six categories: actual conditions, roles, issues of life nursing care facilities, the current state of occupational therapy, and the image and demands for the occupational therapist. It became clear that occupational therapists wanted active collaboration with staff and transfer of knowledge and skills, which would actually lead to the confirmation of priorities in the facilities and the proposals for specific initiatives. These were opportunities to obtain action guidelines to improve the quality of occupational therapy and multidisciplinary collaboration.
