title: [Role-identity of home care nurse practitioners].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  It is important to understand the nature of the identity through the live experiences of Home Care Nurse Practitioner(HCNP) because the role identity of a professional is constructed by continuous social interactions, This study aims to understand the construction of the role identity of HCNP.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data was collected from 12 hospital based HCNPs. This study involved two focus group discussion sand four in-depth individual interviews. The main question was "what is the role of HCNP?" The debriefing notes and field notes were analyzed using consistent comparative data analysis method.
  
  
  RESULTS
  First, Home care (HC) is a small clinic. HCNP brings it to home to provide various services. Second, HC is the real nursing and HCNP is the 'genuine' nurse who actualizes the essence of nursing in practice. Third, HC is empowering activity to promote self-care ability of the patients and their caregivers. Forth, HC is like the dish-spinning required high-level mastery and HCNP is an expert who provides the most appropriate services to the patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  HCNPs have the role identity as a highly qualified professional who delivers services from hospital to home, actualizes the essence of nursing in practice, empowers the patients and their caregivers to have self-efficacy to recover, and offers the most appropriate nursing care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Kangwon National University, Korea. Sungjae@kangwon.ac.kr
authors.forename: Sung Jae
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Myung Sun
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.forename: Young
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Eun
authors.forename: Moon Hee
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Ko
authors.forename: Joo Hyun
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Dong Ok
authors.initials: DO
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Haeng Mi
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Son
authors.forename: Kyung Sook
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Choi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D024802:Nurse's Role