Home health care is a unique field of nursing practice that requires a synthesis of community health 
nursing principles with the theory and practice of medical/surgical, geriatric, mental health, and other 
nursing specialties. The patient experience is now globally recognized as an independent dimension of 
healthcare quality. A proper, clear, and precise understanding of the patient experience will benefit 
the healthcare industry and society in multiple aspects. Objective of the study: Explore recipients' 
experience with home health care nursing in Alexandria Governorate and shed light on their 
implications for improving this service. Settings: Recipients' homes. Subjects: twenty recipients of 
home health care. Tools: recipients of home health care nursing unstructured interview schedule. 
Results: The emerged raw qualitative data were clustered into six categorical schemes: (1) Ways of 
getting a home health care provider, (2) Criteria for selecting the home health care nurse, (3) 
Common problems facing the recipients of home health care, (4) Necessity of combating 
unprofessional providers, (5) Positive and negative experiences of receiving care at home versus at 
hospital, (6) Recipients' implications to enhance the received care. Conclusion: The participants' 
experiences with home health care nursing yielded both positive and negative aspects. Positive
experiences included: (1) Decreases the chance of infection more than in hospital. (2) Enhancing 
patient's psychological well-being. (3) Home care providers had better bedside manners and technical 
skills. (4) Maximizes their autonomy and choice. The areas that could potentially be improved include 
(1) Healthcare providers' technical skills varied greatly. (2) Unprofessional nursing performance at 
home. Recommendations: Expand the scope of home health care services and improve the quality of 
care. Developing national standards in providing home health care nursing services. Educational 
programs are a must to improve their technical skills.