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Role-Identity of Home Care Nurse Practitioners
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Sung Jae Kim, Myung Sun Yi, Young Eun, Moon Hee Ko, Joo Hyun Kim, Dong Ok Kim, Haeng Mi Son, Kyung Sook Choi
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Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 2006;36(1):103-113. Published online February 28, 2006
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2006.36.1.103
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Introduction
It is important to understand the nature of the identity through the live experiences of Home Care Nurse Practitioner(HCNP) because the role identity of a professional is constructed by continuous social interactions, This study aims to understand the construction of the role identity of HCNP.
Method
Data was collected from 12 hospital based HCNPs. This study involved two focus group discussion sand four in-depth individual interviews. The main question was “what is the role of HCNP?” The debriefing notes and field notes were analyzed using consistent comparative data analysis method.
Result
First, Home care (HC) is a small clinic. HCNP brings it to home to provide various services. Second, HC is the real nursing and HCNP is the ‘genuine’ nurse who actualizes the essence of nursing in practice. Third, HC is empowering activity to promote self-care ability of the patients and their caregivers. Forth, HC is like the dish-spinning required high-level mastery and HCNP is an expert who provides the most appropriate services to the patients.
Conclusion
HCNPs have the role identity as a highly qualified professional who delivers services from hospital to home, actualizes the essence of nursing in practice, empowers the patients and their caregivers to have self-efficacy to recover, and offers the most appropriate nursing care.
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