Aim: The increasing number of elderly people has caused increased demand for home-visiting nurses.
Nursing managers should develop healthy workplaces in order to grow their workforce. This study
investigated the work engagement of home-visiting nurses as an index of workplace health. The aim of the
present study was to reveal factors contributing to work engagement among Japanese home-visiting nurses.
Methods: An anonymous, self-administered questionnaire was sent to 208 home-visiting nurses from 28
nursing agencies in three districts; 177 (85.1%) returned the questionnaires. The Job Demands–Resources
model, which explains the relationship between work environment and employee well-being, was used as a
conceptual guide. The authors employed three survey instruments: (i) questions on individual variables; (ii)
questions on organizational variables; and (iii) the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (Japanese version).
Multiple regression analyses were performed in order to examine the relationships between individual
variables, organizational variables, and work engagement