Shaping Identity of Skilled Male Nurses with Aiming at Administrators of Psychiatric Home-Visit Nursing Station

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to clarify factors to influence shaping identity as a nurse until skilled male nurses Administrators a psychiatric home-visit nursing station. The subjects were 11 male nurses who started the home-visit nursing station in Kyushu, Kanto, Hokuriku, Shinetsu and Touhoku region. Using interview guides, semi-structured interviews were conducted. As one sentence shows one idea, contents of subject’s talking were encoded. The encoded contents were classified into similar ones and different ones. Following similarity of meaning contents, sub-categories were created, then categories were made in the same way. In addition, core-categories which had a high level of abstraction were crated with following the similarity. Factors which stimulated shaping the identity as a nurse were “pride as a psychiatric nurse”, “limits of nursing in hospital organizations” and “establishment of a trust relationship with female nurses”.

Consequently, the study suggests that it is important to form interpersonal- relationships with female nurses in the case of working in a workplace with many women, and to take pride as a nurse for shaping the identity.