The Evaluation of Nursing Student's Point of Views toward Caring Behaviors in Intensive Cares

Clinical education has a major role in the development of clinical skills. Nursing requires that the students learn how to become professional healthcare in the clinical environment. Despite the vital role of clinical training in improving the quality of students’ caring behaviors، however large differences exist in the perceptions of caring behaviors. The purpose of this study was to identify the viewpoints of nurses students regarding the priority of caring behaviors. In this descriptive study، all the nursing students during 7th and 8th semester in Tabriz nursing School of Medical Sciences in 2013 were chosen by census sampling، included 200 students (67% female، 33% mail) that were passing the ICU clinical teaching. Data were also collected by the Caring Assessment Questionnaire (Care-Q)، developed by Larson. Caring behaviors consisted of 57 statement were ranked on a 5-point Likert-type scale and ordered in six subscales. After analyzing data by using SPSS software version 21. 0، the results demonstrated that students'' high ranking in the importance of caring، was about «Being Accessible»، «Monitoring and Following through» and the low ranking was about «Trusting Relationships” and» Anticipates”، respectively. Moreover، male students ranked «Monitoring and following through» (p < 0. 05) higher than females. Furthermore، the nursing students perceived highly physical aspects of caring compared to emotional caring. Therefore، the results revealed the necessity of students ''awareness of the other needs during caring of patients. It is worthy to note that educational training and informing students in the beginning of clinical placement would facilitate accepting the promotion of their motivation for learning caring behaviors.