Nursing students' movement toward becoming a professional caring nurse

CONCLUSIONS: Becoming a professional caring nurse is seen as an ongoing movement toward a deeper understanding of oneself and one's being and bearing. This movement is enabled when nursing students have a sense of self-awareness, courage to stand in their vulnerability, and reflect on their responsibility, caring attitude, and inner values and ethics. The force of becoming is that the attention is directed beyond self to care for and feel empathy for others in a caring manner. Becoming is released through a caring relationship, external confirmation, and good role models. A lack of external support in the movement can potentially prevent the students from becoming a professional caring nurse.PMID:38491783 | DOI:10.1177/09697330241238343
Source: Nursing Ethics - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research