NET 2018 Conference: Caring pedagogies to foster the growth and development of professional caring in students

Research paper

At the core of nursing education and practice is caring. Yet there is little in the literature describing how Nursing students are taught or embody caring as a practicing nurse. Schools of Nursing state they educate future nursing professionals to care for the person the family and the community. But what does this really mean? What do we teach? How do we teach it? How effective are we? The purpose of this presentation is to describe based on a multi-site qualitative descriptive study students’ process of growth and development of professional caring and the caring pedagogies that facilitate their growth.