Aging & Society: Eighth Interdisciplinary Conference

Abstract

It is important for visiting nurses to gather necessary information in a limited time to support older people’s day-to-day lives. This study clarified the characteristics of information seeking by expert visiting nurses during repeated observation of a scene. This was accomplished through a comparison with novice visiting nurses and nursing students. Photos were created for four scenes (greetings, conversation, observation of health-conditions, exiting the room) of visiting nursing for two cases of older people living at home (Case A: An older person living with family; Case B: An older person living alone). Each scene was presented for ten seconds, and the participants’ eye movements were measured using a Tobii ProX2-60. Only the observation of health-conditions scene was presented twice. Statistical analysis used SPSS Statistics Ver. 24. This study was approved by the Ethical Review Board. There were thirty-four female participants comprised of thirteen expert nurses, eleven novice nurses, and ten nursing students. When Case A was presented the second time, the fixation duration and fixation count during observation of the older person’s expression were significantly higher for the expert nurses compared to the nursing students (p<0.05), and were greater than during the first presentation for the expert nurses only (no significant difference). When reshown the observation of health-conditions scene for the older person living with family, it was clear that the expert nurses’ attention was placed on the older person. This study is a part of a doctoral dissertation for the Graduate School of Nursing, Chiba University.