A longitudinal study of nursing undergraduates′ humanistic care ability in different stages of clinical practice
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1672-7088.2017.24.010
- VernacularTitle:本科护生不同实习阶段人文关怀能力的纵向调查
- Author:
Yingjie CAI
;
Chunli SONG
;
Tieying SHI
;
Yanjiao LI
- Keywords:
Nursing undergraduate;
Clinical practice;
Humanistic care ability;
Longitudinal study
- From:
Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing
2017;33(24):1882-1885
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To do a longitudinal study of nursing undergraduates′ humanistic care ability in different period of clinical practice, and analyze its trend, aiming to provide reference about how to intervene to enhance the nursing undergraduates' humanistic care ability. Methods A total of 67 nursing undergraduates were investigated about their humanistic care ability with the Care Ability Inventory (Caring Ability Inventory, CAI) at the beginning, middle and end of the internship. Results The scores of seniors′ humanistic care ability at the beginning, middle and end of the internship were 194.97±22.93, 192.18±26.87, 187.24±22.15, and there was a statistically significant difference among the three time points (F=3.234, P<0.05), there was significant difference of the dimension of courage in different periods (F=7.511, P<0.01). Conclusions There is a downtrend of nursing undergraduates′humanistic care ability in different stages of clinical practice, and we suggest that nursing educators and administrators should consider the characteristics of different periods in the clinical practice, and then do a targeted training to foster nursing students′humanistic care ability.
