Abstract
Care is an important nursing concept. Nursing education should focus on cultivating students’ performance of caring behaviors to maintain the patient care that is a hallmark of this profession and guard the health of patients. Nursing teachers must understand the factors related to the performance of caring behaviors in students. This knowledge can serve as a reference for the development and teaching strategy of a nursing program. This qualitative study aimed at understanding the factors affecting the performance of caring behaviors by nursing students.This qualitative study was conducted at a science and technology university inNorthern Taiwan. Convenience sampling was used to collect 40 reflective journals from 20 nursing students at the five-year junior college as the study data. Content analysis was used to analyze the data.This study found two themes related to caring behaviors in nursing students: perception of nursing students and inter-subjectivity with patients.The beliefs and perceptions of students are closely linked to their performance of caring behaviors. Greater awareness in nursing students will improve their performance of caring behaviors (e.g., the concept of nursing care, ability to care, empowerment, learning by imitation and inter-subjectivity with patients). Results of this study could serve as a reference for program design and clinical practicum instruction for nursing education, to improve caring behaviors in students.
Highlights
Care is an important concept in nursing
This study showed that the performance of caring behaviors by nursing students was related to the ability to care
This study showed that the performance of caring behaviors by nursing students was related to their sense of empowerment
Summary
Care is an important concept in nursing. Nursing education should focus on cultivating the ability of students to perform caring behaviors, a hallmark of the nursing profession and necessary to the physical, psychological, social and spiritual health of patients [1]. Nursing teachers in particular should understand the factors related to the performance of caring behaviors by students. This knowledge can serve as a reference for the development of a nursing program and the teaching strategies used in the program. This qualitative study aimed at understanding the factors affecting the performance of caring behaviors by nursing students. Caring behaviors were defined to include nurses using professional knowledge to provide patients with health-related information and health education; or nurses using professional skills to provide patients with sensory contact, emotional support, environmental support (companionship), communication, physical assessment, nursing examination/test and basic nursing tasks
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