Conceptual Analysis of “Personal Grooming”：Aiming at the Selection and Standardization of “Personal Grooming” as Nursing Skills in Basic Nursing Education

Abstract

　Purpose: This study aims to determine the concept of “personal grooming” in the field of nursing in Japan to select and standardize “personal grooming” nursing skills in basic nursing education.
　Methods: This study employed Walker & Avant’s concept analysis, and included a total of 37 references in the analysis. The references included 1 encyclopedia, 9 books, and 27 articles retrieved from the Ichushi Web, Saishin Kango Sakuin Web, and J-STAGE databases.
　Results and Discussion: The analysis identified 10 attributes, 3 antecedents, 9 consequences, and 28 empirical referents. The attributes of the concept of “personal grooming” in the field of nursing in Japan were summarized as follows: it is the care that nurses ‘perform at the patient wake-up and bedtime,’ ‘personalize to the patient physical conditions,’ ‘provide patients by respecting the them as a person’ when patients cannot perform “personal grooming” themselves due to physical or mental limitations, and the care that nurses ‘fix the patient final appearance to fit the person’ at the time of end-of-life care. The findings suggest the necessity for nursing instructors to instruct in these attributes that are unique to the nursing field, and to select and standardize the educational content of “personal grooming” nursing skills based on the identified empirical referents.