Patient characteristics in home nursing practice

Abstract:
To clarify the characteristics of home care patients visited by nursing students during a two-week home nursing practice.

Method:
Statistical analysis of the home care patients visited by nursing students during home nursing practice.

Results:
The most common disease was the cardiovascular system at 22%. By gender, 45% were male and 54% were female, and there were many female recuperators. By age group, 33% were in their 80s, followed by 29% in their 70s and 11% in their 90s. Amongã??the primary caregivers, spouse was the most common at 37%, followed by children at 26% and living alone at 11%.
The insurance for using home-visit nurses was 54% for long-term care insurance and 44% for medical insurance.

Conclusion:
It became clear that the students accompanied the recuperators from infants in their 0s to 9s to the elderly aged 100 and over. 
It can be said that the characteristics of the recuperators visited by the students are a reduction of the current situation of home recuperators in Japan

Author(s): Keiko Hattori, Junko Shimizu, Michiko Koyam

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