Level of Instructor Caring
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Student Nurses’ Perception on the Caring Attributes of their Clinical Instructors
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A Synthesis Paper
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May 2012
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I. Introduction
Background of the Study
Nurses’ responsibilities and workloads have been magnified by the changes in the health care delivery systems around the globe. Nurses must now deal with patients’ increased acuity in regard to their health care needs. Despite such hardships, nurses must find ways to preserve their caring practice. Jean Watson’s caring theory can be seen as an indispensable tool to accomplish this goal. Caring has been valued as a central component of nursing for the past three decades. Tanner (1990) emphasized caring as a core value in nursing education and practice. Since caring is the central focus of nursing, close attention should be given to the practice, study, and teaching of caring.
It is the clinical instructor’s role to provide students an opportunity to experience in the clinical field what cannot be fully captured in the classroom. In some nursing literature, the stressful nature of student clinical learning has been widely described. As stated by Heart (1990), high
Student Nurses’ Perception on the Caring Attributes of their Clinical Instructors
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A Synthesis Paper
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May 2012
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I. Introduction
Background of the Study
Nurses’ responsibilities and workloads have been magnified by the changes in the health care delivery systems around the globe. Nurses must now deal with patients’ increased acuity in regard to their health care needs. Despite such hardships, nurses must find ways to preserve their caring practice. Jean Watson’s caring theory can be seen as an indispensable tool to accomplish this goal. Caring has been valued as a central component of nursing for the past three decades. Tanner (1990) emphasized caring as a core value in nursing education and practice. Since caring is the central focus of nursing, close attention should be given to the practice, study, and teaching of caring.
It is the clinical instructor’s role to provide students an opportunity to experience in the clinical field what cannot be fully captured in the classroom. In some nursing literature, the stressful nature of student clinical learning has been widely described. As stated by Heart (1990), high
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