Senior Visiting Nurses’ Support for Novice Nurses and Perception of the Novice Nurses’ Development

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  • スタッフがとらえた新卒訪問看護師の成長と支援
  • スタッフ ガ トラエタ シン ソツ ホウモン カンゴシ ノ セイチョウ ト シエン

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<p>Purpose: This study aimed to explore how visiting nurse agency staff perceive the novice nurses’ development and support them for a year after graduation.</p><p>Method: Semi-structured interviews were conducted three times in a year with twelve staff from two visiting nursing agencies that had recruited novice nurses for the first time. The interview data were analyzed qualitatively.</p><p>Result: The staff perceived the novice nurses’ development as follows: “having tensions, but also having enough basic knowledge and powers of observation for being with patients” immediately after graduation; “some anxiety and impatience, but with an emerging self-awareness as a nurse, capable of certain level of practice” after beginning independent visits; and “capable of taking responsibility and basic visiting nurse practice depending on the circumstances” after one year. To encourage the development of the novices as nurses, the staff provided the following support: “preparing the correct environment and practicing with the novices by demonstrating staff’s work” immediately after graduation; “providing feedback and compensating for the novices work” after starting independent visits; and “accumulating the novices’ experience through checking their work and clarifying issues” after one year.</p><p>Discussion: These findings suggest that the novices employed in visiting nurse agencies developed in stages until capable of basic visiting nurse work one year after beginning employment. The staff supported the novices with support tailored to the stages of their development by “demonstrating staff’s work,” “monitoring the novices,” and “checking the novices’ work.”</p>

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