2021 Volume 46 Issue 3 Pages 329-336
The objective of this study was to reveal what kind of assessment perspectives the visiting nurses have to support mothers who manage physical conditions of their children requiring medical care during the initial stage of transition from NICU to home-based care. A semi-structured interview was conducted with 15 visiting nurses who had had at least 5 years of experiences in pediatric nursing visits, followed by a qualitative inductive analysis. From the analysis, 5 categories were extracted; the visiting nurses had assessment perspectives in “ability of mothers to manage life support of children", “ability of mothers to incorporate management of physical conditions of children requiring medical care into their lives", “ability of mothers to arrange children's care according to their physical conditions", “establishment of devotion to their children" and “ability of mothers to manage their stress". These appeared to be the perspectives which should not be the goals to be completely achieved at the initial stage of transition to home-based care but to learn how to manage physical conditions of children for mothers without feeling stressed while re-establishing their lives at this stage and to continue home-based life activities including parent-child relationship as well as management of physical conditions of their own; in other words, these are the perspectives to recognize abilities of mothers to be involved in management of physical conditions of their children.
