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S Shimanouchi

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At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed2001

Development of an assessment sheet for a home care.

Reliable assessment instruments are essential for a new nursing care insurance system enacted in April 2000 in Japan, to ensure the quality of home care. We developed an assessment sheet based on a minimum data set and care assessment, previously developed by the Japan Visiting Nursing Foundation. This article describes the process of testing in practice, validation and revision of the assessment sheet and problem/need areas. One hundred and twelve subjects were initially visited in 48 home care agencies. The same nurse used the assessment sheet for the same client at the initial visit and one month later. After a refinement process, the assessment items and problem/needs areas were simplified. Documentation time for the assessment was significantly shortened. These assessment instruments help development of care plans by identifying client needs, utilization of social resources and evaluation of outcomes.

Adult↗
PubMed1997

[Development of "assessment guideline of family power for healthy life"].

The purpose of this study is to develop "assessment guideline of family power for healthy life" aiming at expanding self-care power of family in community nursing practice. The subjects of this study covered those families in one hundred and fifty six instances that we had seized as subject for nursing care and study. The method of this study had constructed assessment guideline inductively out of each case, and modified it by applying to cases of families with health problems and others. As a result, we had formed nine items of "family power for healthy life" and three items of "conditions influencing family power for healthy life" for "assessment guideline of family power for healthy life".

Community Health Nursing↗
PubMed1993

[Continuity of care during hospital and after hospitalization for the patients with stroke. Comparing the level of independence in ADL and care needs].

Thanks to the advancement of medical technology, there has been a significant decline in stroke mortality in Japan. This means that many stroke victims could gain additional years of survival with several disabilities. It is necessary that nurses assist these disabled patients upon discharge for shifting smoothly from the hospital to the home. The purpose of this study was to clarify the factors of continuity of care for the disabled patients who has had a stroke, between hospital and community. The 504 patients who were discharged from the Kanagawa Prefectural Rehabilitation hospital and were in need of visiting nursing services upon their discharge were selected in this study. The survey was conducted through discharge summaries and visiting nursing reports. The data were compared at discharge with the first nursing visit with respect to the level of independence in activities of daily living (ADL) and their care needs. The results were summarized as follows: 1. As for the functional level of ADL, most patients remained unchanged. Feeding was improved; however, grooming (including bathing), using the toilet, and dressing were worse. Hence, hospital nurses should strongly educate the patients and repeat ADL so that dressing is a rehabilitation exercise itself. Also, nurses, prior to discharge, should consider dealing with the housing problems, especially in the bathrooms and washrooms, due to the patients' physical disabilities. Nurses should pay particular attention to the aged group upon the continuity of care since their level of independence in walking changed variously among individuals. 2. Hospital nurses identified nursing problems mostly in the physical aspects, whereas public health nurses did it in terms of family-caregivers and social resources rather than physical needs. The reasons why nursing problems did not correspond between hospital nurses and public health nurses were probably owing to the differences in their practice settings, job content, and working conditions between the hospital and community. Thus, both nurses should reciprocally provide one's information and introduce other's information in order to understand and employ the other's standpoints.

Activities of Daily Living↗