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Caring interactions among nursing students: a descriptive comparison of 2 associate degree nursing programs
L C Hughes1, M M Kosowski, K Grams
1School of Nursing, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA.
Nursing Outlook
|September 18, 1998
Summary
Nursing education should leverage peer interactions to foster caring behaviors among students. This approach helps socialize students to caring as a core professional value in nursing practice.
Area of Science:
- Nursing Education
- Healthcare Professional Development
Background:
- Caring is a crucial professional value in nursing.
- Nurse educators face challenges in socializing students to practice caring.
- Existing research highlights the importance of caring in nursing curricula.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate how caring behaviors emerge in nursing education.
- To explore strategies for fostering caring as a professional value among nursing students.
- To examine the role of peer interactions in developing caring skills.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative research exploring student and faculty interactions.
- Analysis of socialization processes related to caring in nursing education.
- Focus on experiential learning and peer relationships.
Main Results:
- Caring can emerge through student-student and student-faculty interactions.
- Peer relationships offer a viable strategy for experiencing and developing caring behaviors.
- Experiential learning strategies promoting peer caring are supported by findings.
Conclusions:
- Nursing education can utilize peer interactions to cultivate caring.
- Further research is needed to validate experiential learning strategies for teaching caring.
- Developing caring nurses requires intentional facilitation within educational settings.
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