Nursing Care Workers’ Experience of Care Giving Infected Patients in Long-term Care Hospital / 재활간호학회지

ABSTRACT

Purpose@#The purpose of this study is to explore nursing care worker's experience of care services for infected patients in long-term care hospital. @*Methods@#For this study, the researcher used the convenience sampling method to recruit 9 nursing care workers in long-term care hospitals. Data were collected through in-depth interview with them. The data collected were analyzed using the thematic analysis method. @*Results@#24 codes were extracted, and through the process of organizing the meanings, 8 sub-themes and 4 themes were deduced. The themes deduced were ‘Diversely coexisting psychological responses’, ‘Caring for an infected patient at a given position’, ‘Obstacles to implementation of principled infection control guidelines’, ‘Needs for customized education of caregiver for infected patients’. @*Conclusion@#This study would be deemed significant in that it has provided for some basic data to the education of the nursing care workers and the development of an intervention program.