Essential functions of nurses that are establishing a home care system in a depopulated region

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24593494
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Community health/Gerontological nurisng
• Research Institution: Gifu College of Nursing
• Principal Investigator: MORI Hitomi 岐阜県立看護大学, 看護学部, 教授 (40326111)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KITAYAMA Mitsuko 岐阜県立看護大学, 地域基礎看護学領域, 教授 (70161502) ; FURUKAWA Naomi 岐阜県立看護大学, 地域基礎看護学領域, 准教授 (40290035) ; TANAKA Akiko 岐阜県立看護大学, 地域基礎看護学領域, 准教授 (80274314) ; HARADA Megumi 岐阜県立看護大学, 地域基礎看護学領域, 助教 (80448696) ; TANEMUTA Mai 岐阜県立看護大学, 地域基礎看護学領域, 助教 (80625260) ; TAKAHASHI Tomoko 岐阜県立看護大学, 地域基礎看護学領域, 助教 (50720174)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): HARUYAMA Sanae 自治医科大学, 看護学部, 教授 (00269325)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 過疎地域 / 在宅ケア体制構築 / 看護職の機能

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To reveal the functions of nurses that are essential in establishing a home care system in a depopulated region, we analyzed the activities of healthcare workers that had facilitated the establishment of home care systems in depopulated municipalities. In addition, together with supporters, we implemented and evaluated a home care system in one underpopulated region to reveal issues associated with the promotion of home care services. The examination of the innovative activities uncovered 13 functions of nurses, while analysis of the system implemented in the depopulated region extracted 11 issues. The important functions of nurses that effectively addressed the 11 issues were supporting recuperation and nursing care plans tailored to individual home-care recipients, educating local residents about the needs of home-care recipients, initiating cooperative work with supporters, and positioning the needs of home-care recipients as healthcare issues of the town.

Free Research Field

地域看護学