Working in home healthcare and suggestions for development

The article "Working in home healthcare and suggestions for development" was published in Home Health Care Services Quarterly; 
Volume 38, 2019 - Issue 4 and can be found on this link >> https://doi.org/10.1080/01621424.2019.1641450

Abstract

In order to describe nurses’ experiences of working in home health care and their suggestions for the development of this public health-care sector, interviews with 18 home health-care nurses were analyzed with qualitative thematic content analysis. The nurses perceived the working shifts either affirmative or non-affirmative, depending on the contextual and organizational factors affecting nurses’ workload. The more the nurses perceived they could influence their work, the more engaged they were in patient-related nursing activities, patient-centeredness, collaboration, and forward planning. Several concrete suggestions for the development of home healthcare on the organizational, interprofessional, team and individual levels were given.