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Relationship between nursing students' perceptions of clinical instructor caring and their professional behaviors
Seçil Taylan1, İlknur Özkan1, Gülden Küçükakça Çelik2
1Nursing Department, Kumluca Faculty of Health Sciences, Akdeniz University, Kumluca-Antalya, Turkey.
Purpose:
To examine the relationship between nursing students' perceptions of clinical instructor caring and their professional behaviors.
Method:
This study used a descriptive and cross-sectional design. The data were analyzed with Pearson's correlation and Linear regression analyses.
Results:
The professional behaviors of nursing students were found to increase their desire to become a nurse in the future with "instills confidence through caring" and "supportive learning climate" subscales but to decrease their desire to be an academician in the future.
Conclusion:
As students' perceptions of clinical instructor caring increased, their status of applying professional behaviors was found to increase, as well.
Practical Implication:
Descriptive characteristics and clinical instructor caring are related to high professional behaviors in nursing students.
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