Introduction: Based on human caring model, care should be a nursing value and should be evidence in ten carative factors between nurse and patient. Only in presence of these ten carative factors authentic care is done and client reaches to a higher level of equity and cure. It’s a teacher responsibility to make students familiar about the concept of care and it’s a requisite to know what it means in their perspective before. The aim of this article is assessing nursing students' perception of importance of caring nursing behaviors based on caring model.
Methods: This is a descriptive study. The study tool Care-Q was given to all nursing students of Azad Islamic university branch of Saveh. 117 student were present at the time of study and they ordinate 50 caring behaviors written on distinct carts based on their importance in seven set not equal in their numbers. This tool based on human caring model of Watson categorized caring behaviours in six subgroups.
Results: Most important subgroups in perceptions of these students were accessibility, explanation and facilitation, monitoring and control, expectation and expecting patient's needs, comfort and trusting communication. The most important behavior was" to give medications and therapeutic acts timely" and the least importance behavior were" to ask patient what does want to be called by".
Conclusion: It is explainable that no experienced nursing students give highest importance to therapeutic caring behaviors but based on human caring model in the process of education in nursing, they should catch insights to a holistic and authentic care considering all ten carative factors of Watson's caring model. An appropriate nursing curriculum with a holistic perspective should facilitate the context for human caring behaviors between nurse and patient and with applying new learning methods.
Hasani P, Nikfarid L. Assessment of nursing students' of Azad Islamic university of Saveh' percpective about amount of important caring behavours based on caring model of Watson. IJNR 2014; 9 (1) :8-16 URL: http://ijnr.ir/article-1-1328-en.html