Humanistic caring ability of undergraduate nursing students and influence factors

Abstract

Objective To investigate the status quo of humanistic caring ability of undergraduate nursing students, and to analyze the influencing factors. Methods By convenient sampling method, 171 students majoring in Nursing, enrolled to School of Nursing, Shanxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2015, were selected and surveyed by Caring Ability Inventory (CAI) about their humanistic caring ability and influencing factors. Results In the scale CAI, total scores, scores of dimension courage, and scores of dimension patience of the nursing students were (185.29±23.32) , (58.30±9.91) , and (56.94±9.35) , lower than the norm (208.58±23.32) , (65.25±11.57) and (63.11±4.19) (t/Z=-12.907, -9.068, 2.229; P<0.001) . Scores of students, who were the only child in their family, on the dimension courage and patience were (55.17±10.51) and [57 (46, 61) ], lower than those who came from non-only-child family (59.16±9.59) and [59 (55, 63) ], (t/Z=-2.166, -2.651; P<0.05) . Conclusions Overall humanistic caring ability of nursing students in our country is relatively low. Educators should pay attention to related factors, formulate targeted training strategies, so as to strengthen education on humanistic caring of nursing students. Key words: Students, nursing; Humanistic caring