Incorporating Caring Theory into Personal and Professional Nursing Practice to Improve Perception of Care

Abstract

A one-day Watson’s caring theory educational seminar was presented to 10 staff nurses from a community hospital with the intent to improve patients’ perception of care. A quasi-experimental design was employed, using descriptive statistics and t tests to compare measures of perceptions of care pre and post the educational session. A statistically significant increase in nurse’s confidence in caring attitudes and behaviors was found as measured by the caring nurse patient interaction scale nurse version (CNPI-70N). Increases in Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and System (HCAHPS) scores for nurses, on treating patients with courtesy and respect and for nurses listening carefully to patients, were also realized for the majority of units involved.

Comparing feeling of competence regarding humanistic caring in Belgian nurses and nursing students: A comparative cross‐sectional study conducted in a French Belgian teaching hospital

“…Cossette et al did so to compare RN and NS in terms of feeling of competence of. In their work, Desmond et al (2014) demonstrated with the help of the CNPI-70 that a CPD activity increased the feeling of competence of participants regarding caring. In our research, the NS felt just as competent as the RN did regarding "humanistic care" and "comforting care," which suggests that whether the basic nursing curriculum is completed or not makes no difference.…”