TY - JOUR TI - Students’ Home Visit Experiences within the Scope of Public Health Nursing Course: A Qualitative Study AB - Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of nursing students’ home visits within thecontext of the public health nursing course.Patients and Methods: This was a qualitative descriptive study based on the student’s reflective essay. The studywas completed with 110 senior students in the nursing faculty of a public university in Turkey. Students explainedself-perceptions (abilities, skills and feelings) before and after the home visits process of public health nursingfield practice at the end of the semester. Results: The experiences of students before the field practice were grouped under the themes of “security”,“concerns about the family process” and “feeling insufficient”. The themes “job satisfaction”, “being useful to thefamilies”, and “contribution to personal development” emerged from the data collected after the field practicewas completed.Conclusions: This brief educational intervention allows students to feel useful to the families and the practicecontributed to their personal development. It can improve the readiness of students for home visits withundergraduate programs because nursing students meet the “real world” AU - Emiroğlu, Oya Nuran AU - KURU ALICI, NILGUN DO - 10.31067/acusaglik.834065 PY - 2021 JO - Acıbadem Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi VL - 12 IS - 1 SN - 1309-470X SP - 146 EP - 151 DB - TRDizin UR - http://search/yayin/detay/431087 ER -