THE CARING BEHAVIOR OF FOUR NURSING STUDENTS AT MT. HOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE (MT. HOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE, OREGON).
Contributors: Brigham Young University.
Published: 1994
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Education, Curriculum and Instruction.; Education, Community College.
Description: Caring is an attribute which is considered to be central to the practice of nursing. However, caring behaviors in nursing students are neither encouraged nor affirmed by nurse educators partly because such behaviors have not been identified or described in the literature.

In a recent naturalistic study of four nursing students in the first year of an associate degree nursing program repeated in-depth observations coupled with journal reports, personal interviews, and the use of a CARE-Q Sort tool were used. Four themes emerged: (1) students need to achieve connectedness with each of their patients; (2) students are aware of the challenge to integrate caring behaviors with the tasks of nursing; (3) students need to be affirmed and recognized as practitioners who demonstrate and practice caring behaviors; and (4) students are able to examine themselves to develop personal insights about being caring practitioners.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-12, Section: B, page: 5286.

Thesis (ED.D.)--BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, 1994.

School code: 0022.