Current status and influencing factors of humanistic care ability in student nurses

Abstract

Objective To explore the current status and influencing factors of humanistic care ability in student nurses so as to provide a basis for drawing up targeted intervention. Methods From 1st January to 31st December 2016, we selected 200 student nurses of a Class Ⅲ Grade A hospital in Harbin as subjects by purposive sampling. All of the student nurses were investigated with the General Information Questionnaire and Caring Ability Inventory (CAI) . Results The total score and score of three dimensions (patience, understanding and courage) of CAI of student nurses were (181.63±10.21) , (101.47±8.67) , (141.33±12.55) and (129.77±3.65) respectively. There were statistically significant differences in humanistic care ability among different sexes, ages, internship hours, political status and being class cadres or not of nursing students (P<0.05) . Conclusions The humanistic care ability of student nurses is in a low level being influenced by various factors. Clinical teaching should take effective actions to improve humanistic care ability of student nurses. Key words: Students, nursing; Humanistic care; Practice