Exploring Pre-Nursing Students' Perceptions of Caring and Nursing: A Phenomenological Study
Exploring Pre-Nursing Students' Perceptions of Caring and Nursing: A Phenomenological Study
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探索护理预科学生对护理和护理的看法:一项现象学研究
DOI:
10.20467/1091-5710-18.1.8
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
L. Rowe
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文献类型:
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作者:
Claudia Grobbel;L. Rowe
Caring is the essence of professional nursing practice. In today's complex healthcare environment the challenge becomes how to balance the demands of the high acuity environment with caring practices. Nursing is at risk for losing the essence of caring as technology threatens to overwhelm our work (Wagner, 2008). As clinical nursing care reprioritizes caring knowledge and practices, it becomes critical to examine how caring practices are taught, how they are prioritized and evaluated in the baccalaureate curriculum. A phenomenological study was conducted to understand the presence of caring knowledge in pre-nursing students' essays. Fifty essays were analyzed revealing seven themes of caring. They are: the language of caring, sharing information, building relationships, role modeling, providing competent care, delivering caring actions and the results of being ill. Nursing education needs to consider these findings with caring as a way of being and a therapeutic intervention that is equal in importance to...