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KMID : 1003020140150010035
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Qualitative Research
2014 Volume.15 No. 1 p.35 ~ p.47
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Long-term Care Facility"s Geriatric Nursing Traits
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Kim Kon-Hee
Lee Hae-Rang
Kim Yeong-Kyeong
Kim Hyun-Ju
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Abstract
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Purpose: This qualitative study aimed to understand the uniqueness of a long-term care facility and to investigate its nursing practices for the elderly.
Methods: Data were collected by close observations and the in-depth interviews using non-structured questionnaires with 7 nurses of a long-term care facility from October to December, 2012. The key question was "What are your experiences in the long-term care facility?". Data were analyzed by the qualitative content analysis.
Results: There were structural and emotional circumstances, members, and relationships in the long-term care facility. The nursing traits of the long-term care facility could be characterized as the following four domains: ‘The field of life; The understanding of place", ‘Subject of care; The understanding of the elderly", ‘Provider of care; The roles of nurses who performed wholistic nursing", ‘Surroundings of nursing; Expand the scope of nursing".
Conclusion: Based on these results, it is seen that a proper and realistic understanding about the long-term care facility is needed, which is expected to be used as a basis for developing the intervention measures that are appropriate to unique traits of the long-term care facility nursing.
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KEYWORD
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Elderly, Long-term care, Nursing, Qualitative research
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