Educational needs for the development of a simulation module of home visiting care for the frail elderly

Abstract

Purpose: This study aimed to identify the educational needs of nurses and nursing students for the development of a simulation module of home visiting care for frail, elderly people.Methods: Focus group interviews were conducted with 15 home visiting nurses working in public health centers and 14 nursing students who experienced home visiting from September 10 to October 10, 2018.Results: Bloom’s taxonomy of learning objectives, namely, cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains was used as a framework for data analysis. The defined educational needs for each domain were as follows: “understanding frail, elderly people” for the cognitive domain; “intervention for mental health” and “building a therapeutic relationship” for the affective domain; and “nursing skills”, “health education for healthy lifestyles”, “referral to the community resource connection”, “protection for visiting nurses” for the psychomotor domain.Conclusion: Based on the findings of this study, a simulation module of home visiting care for frail, elderly people can be developed and used for nursing students and nurses to strengthen the capacity for home visiting care.