Experience of Home Health Care Nursing in Alexandria Governorate: Recipients’ Perspective | ||
| Alexandria Scientific Nursing Journal | ||
| Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2022, Pages 25-39 PDF (418.32 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research articles | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/asalexu.2022.267753 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ola Mostafa Abdel-Fattah* ; Hanan Hosni El-Sherbini; Hend Hassan Mitwally | ||
| Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Home health care is a unique field of nursing practice that requires a synthesis of community health nursing principles with the theory and practice of medical/surgical, geriatric, mental health, and other nursing specialties. The patient experience is now globally recognized as an independent dimension of healthcare quality. A proper, clear, and precise understanding of the patient experience will benefit the healthcare industry and society in multiple aspects. Objective of the study: Explore recipients’ experience with home health care nursing in Alexandria Governorate and shed light on their implications for improving this service. Settings: Recipients’ homes. Subjects: twenty recipients of home health care. Tools: recipients of home health care nursing unstructured interview schedule. Results: The emerged raw qualitative data were clustered into six categorical schemes: (1) Ways of getting a home health care provider, (2) Criteria for selecting the home health care nurse, (3) Common problems facing the recipients of home health care, (4) Necessity of combating unprofessional providers, (5) Positive and negative experiences of receiving care at home versus at hospital, (6) Recipients’ implications to enhance the received care. Conclusion: The participants’ experiences with home health care nursing yielded both positive and negative aspects. Positive experiences included: (1) Decreases the chance of infection more than in hospital. (2) Enhancing patient’s psychological well-being. (3) Home care providers had better bedside manners and technical skills. (4) Maximizes their autonomy and choice. The areas that could potentially be improved include (1) Healthcare providers’ technical skills varied greatly. (2) Unprofessional nursing performance at home. Recommendations: Expand the scope of home health care services and improve the quality of care. Developing national standards in providing home health care nursing services. Educational programs are a must to improve their technical skills. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Recipients’ experience; home health care nursing | ||
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