study on student's feeling and attitude toward family health care at faculty of nursing, Assiut university

The study aimed to determine students feeling and attitude toward family health care through home visits at Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University. This study was conducted at Faculty of Nursing Assiut University. The total sample size was136 fourth year students. Self administered questionnaire was designed by the researchers to collect the data needed for the study. It consists of three main parts. The first part was concerned with personal characteristics of study sample. The second part included open ended questions regarding student's feelings before family visits, students' feeling after preparation for family visit and during family visits. The third part included questions about student's feelings after doing family visits, feeling safe during family visits. Also the reasons of their feeling safe and unsafe during family visits. As well as student's willingness to choice community health nursing as a carrier and the reasons for agree and disagree to be a community health nurse. Also attitude scale used to measure students attitude toward benefits of home visit training, importance of pre- field training and the impact of home visit training. Data was collected during the period from the beginning of November 2008 to the end of March 2009. Results of the present study revealed that most of the study sample in the age category 21 to 23 years [61.8%] and [53.7%] of them were resident in rural areas, [49.3%] of their fathers were employees and [76.5%] of their mothers were house wives. Before preparation for family visits [89.0%] had negative feeling. It improved to [86.0%] during home visit had positive feeling and [89.0%] of them had positive feeling after doing family visits. Also the results illustrated that [63.2%] had negative attitude pre training of family visit it improved to [50.0%] had positive attitude during family visits and [62.5%] had negative attitude after family visit training. The results shows that [21.3%] only want to be a community health nurse. The study recommended to develop home care field, nursing scientists of community health nursing and geriatric nursing should make clarify what nurses provide to individuals, families and community