The study aimed to determine students feeling and attitude toward family health care through
home visits at Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University. This study was conducted at Faculty of Nursing
Assiut University. The total sample size was136 fourth year students. Self administered questionnaire
was designed by the researchers to collect the data needed for the study. It consists of three main
parts. The first part was concerned with personal characteristics of study sample. The second part
included open ended questions regarding student's feelings before family visits, students' feeling after
preparation for family visit and during family visits. The third part included questions about student's
feelings after doing family visits, feeling safe during family visits. Also the reasons of their feeling safe
and unsafe during family visits. As well as student's willingness to choice community health nursing as
a carrier and the reasons for agree and disagree to be a community health nurse. Also attitude scale
used to measure students attitude toward benefits of home visit training, importance of pre- field
training and the impact of home visit training. Data was collected during the period from the beginning
of November 2008 to the end of March 2009. Results of the present study revealed that most of the
study sample in the age category 21 to 23 years (61.8%) and (53.7%) of them were resident in rural
areas, (49.3%) of their fathers were employees and (76.5%) of their mothers were house wives. Before
preparation for family visits (89.0%) had negative feeling. It improved to (86.0%) during home visit had
positive feeling and (89.0%) of them had positive feeling after doing family visits. Also the results
illustrated that (63.2%) had negative attitude pre training of family visit it improved to (50.0%) had
positive attitude during family visits and (62.5%) had negative attitude after family visit training. The
results shows that (21.3%) only want to be a community health nurse. The study recommended to
develop home care field, nursing scientists of community health nursing and geriatric nursing should
make clarify what nurses provide to individuals, families and community.