Is caring really teachable?

Impact of Instructors’ Caring on Students’ Perceptions of Their Own Caring Behaviors

“…Any individual who enters nursing must possess caring and continue to allow growth as they progress through the various educational levels. In addition, caring needs to continue to develop in their role in the nursing profession (Alpers et al., ).…”

“…Nursing education plays an important role for the acquisition of and advancement of students’ caring attributes. As a central value of the nursing profession, it is believed that human caring can be learned, taught, and measured through nursing education and, when introduced early, modeled and reinforced throughout the curriculum (Alpers, Jarrell, & Wotring, The future for these students will be that of becoming more aware of the importance of caring and of developing into caring practitioners (Carlson, Kotze, & Van Rooyen, ; Gramling & Nugent, ; Noddings, ). Through positive faculty modeling and role modeling, nursing students can be professionally trained to develop the competency of caring (McEnroe‐Petitte, ).…”

Nursing Students' Perceptions of Their Own Caring Behaviors: A Multicountry Study

“…According to Watson, Deary, and Lea (), this may indicate negative development as a result of the educational and clinical processes, or it may even indicate burnout. This result is surprising considering that students' caring behaviors are expected to grow during the course of nursing education and training as a result of mastery, experience, knowledge, and skills on nursing (Benner, ; Eklund‐Myrskog, ), and these to continue to develop in their role in the nursing profession (Alpers, Jarrell, & Wotring, ).…”