Abstract
Based on the five nursing care items for children on short-term hospitalization and their families, which were clarified in earlier studies, I have created "Nursing care guides for children on short-term hospitalization and their families" (hereinafter called 'care guides') and rating forms for them. In this study, I conducted a semi-structured interview with five nurses, who had performed nursing practices using these care guides and rating forms, and clarified how the nurses recognized the process of nursing care, thus reviewing the significance of the care guides and rating forms. The nurses' recognitions were classified into five categories. The nurses "reconfirmed the nursing cares" by "the presence of the care guides and rating forms," and recognized that their nursing cares had changed. "The factors that support nursing practices" and "the characteristics of nursing cares in short-term hospitalization" were involved in the nursing care practices and the nursing cares were evaluated with "the influence on the nursing care evaluations." It was found that the care guides and rating forms were significant tools that could show the points necessary in performing nursing cares for children on short-term hospitalization and their families. Their utilization in new nurse education programs was suggested.
