The Effects of Hospital Home Nursing Interventions based on the Nursing Diagnosis

Suh, Moon Ja; Kim, Keum Soon; Kim, Myung Ae; Kim, In Ja; Son, Hang Mi

Abstract

Home nursing interventions based on nursing diagnosis were implemented to the patient who are discharged from one hospital often the treatment for chronic neuromuscular system problem, and its effects were studied. The purpose of this study was to find out the effectiveness of hospital bounced home nursing provided by hospital nurses and to categorize home nursing diagnosis and its interventions. Data from experimental group patients were collected at three different time ; at the time of discharge, two weeks after discharge and our weeks after discharge. Data from control group patients were collected twice ; the first one at the time of discharge, and the other one four weeks after discharge. For this study nursing assessment and intervention booklet developed by the research team. There were no significant decrease of the number of nursing problems and life satisfaction. But daily activity level of patients showed the signs of significant improvement at the time of four weeks after discharge. Results of this study indicates that home nursing intervention based on nursing diagnosis provided the patients with noticeable difference in health maintenance, impairment of physical mobility, potential for infection, impaired home maintenance management, health seeking behavior, chronic pain, disuse syndrome, impaired skin integrity.