Patient characteristics in home nursing practice
Keiko Hattori
Nihon Institute of Medical Science, Japan
: J Nurs Patient Care
Abstract
We investigated and analyzed the characteristics of home care patients visited by nursing students during a two-week home nursing practice. The most common disease was the cardiovascular system at 22%. This was followed by nervous system disorders in 17%, terminal / malignant tumors and mental and behavioral disorders in both 10%. By gender, 45% were male and 54% were female, and there were many female recuperators. Regarding the degree of long-term care of the long-term care recipient, long-term care 5 was the most common at 23%, followed by long-term care 2 at 18% and longterm care 4 at 14%. Among the primary caregivers, spouse was the most common at 37%, followed by children at 26% and living alone at 11%. By age group, 33% were in their 80s, followed by 29% in their 70s and 11% in their 90s. The insurance for using home-visit nurses was 54% for long-term care insurance and 44% for medical insurance. Home-visit nursing care is for people in all life cycle periods, from infants to the elderly. From the results of tabulating the characteristics of the recuperators who visited the accompaniment, it became clear that the students accompanied the recuperators from infants in their 0s to 9s to the elderly aged 100 and over.
Biography
Keiko Hattori has worked at Nursing school. She compled a master’s degree in intercultural communication from Rikkyo University. At the University of Nursing, he lectures on international nursing.
