Survey of nursing practice in day care facility for profound and multiple intellectual Disabilities

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26893257
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Lifelong developmental nursing
• Research Institution: Chiba Institute of Science
• Principal Investigator: Ichihara Maho 千葉科学大学, 看護学部, 講師 (70736826)
• Research Collaborator: Shimono Junpei 千葉科学大学, 看護学部看護学科, 助教 (00782476)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-08-29 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 重症心身障害児（者） / 日中活動支援 / 通園（所)施設 / 危機管理 / 看護実践能力 / 緊急時対応 / 事故防止 / 福祉施設

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this survey was to clarify the nursing practice in day care facilities for Profound and Multiple Intellectual Disabilities (PMIDs) and to discuss educational needs for nurse in there to improve PMIDs’ QOL. A mailed self-administered questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviewed were held. Major findings were as follows. 39.7％ of answerers had multiple difficulties, such as ‘lack of clinical competency to distinguish health state’, ‘lack of sense of sharing medical information’, ‘confusion of different value between professions with medical background and welfare education’. Nurses had educational needs which were facilitating clinical judgment competency and constructing clinical collaboration in each settings.

Free Research Field

小児看護学