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Care has received relatively little attention in higher education (HE) literature. However, literature alluding to care reveals contrasting perspectives. Some scholars diminish care concerns as a product of the marketised university, where students-as-consumers insist on ‘safe’ teaching and the avoidance of ‘troublesome knowledge’. Others position care as an ethical pedagogical stance, given the power asymmetries inherent in university life. Some suggest that attention to care in HE is risky, since it troubles gendered boundaries between public and private life, and rationality and emotion. In this article, we discuss a research project that explored diverse students’ conceptions of good teaching and effective learning at a research-intensive university in Aotearoa New Zealand, using focus group discussions, critical incident technique and photovoice. Participants included 55 Māori, Pacific, international and (other) local students enrolled in Health Science and Humanities subjects. Although care was not the focus of the study, all cohorts of students represented care as a key marker of good teaching. They described good teachers as people who care about their discipline, care about teaching and care about students, powerfully influencing students’ engagement with subject matter, enthusiasm for learning and aspirations for the future. While some students acknowledged and lamented their position as consumers in marketised HE, they also revealed an awareness of the factors that constrain teachers’ capacity to care and expressed gratitude for teachers’ investment in students. We argue for the need to recognise teaching in HE as cognitive, emotional and embodied work; to acknowledge teachers’ powerful influence on students; and to avoid simplistic representations of both teachers and students in contemporary HE.

Mindfulness and social work values go hand in hand and this book is the perfect guide in self-care for social workers who want to incorporate mindfulness into their working lives to positive effect. Looking after your mental health in your working life is so important so that you can do the best job you can and learning mindfulness is a great way to incorporate this. Studies have suggested that mindful social workers can have greater emotional awareness with less emotional reactivity, develop stronger interpersonal skills, and other valuable skills that are important for a relationship-based practice. The Mindful Social Worker gives the reader mindfulness guidance to not only improve themselves but also see how this can have an impact on their work. In this book, the reader will be provided with practice tools such as meditation and relaxation techniques to help the practitioner to be more present and have a stronger propensity to reflection. Case study reflection and self-assessments are also used in this book to enable any practitioner from students and the newly qualified to the experienced social worker or care professional. This is all done within the framework of professional standards for Social Work education and practice, showing how much mindfulness can relate to the social work profession.

Increase in the knowledge of \"caring science\" among nurses plays a key role in ensuring a correct caring behavior towards patients. Caring training for students is a priority in nursing education, but unfortunately there are limited and conflicting studies which explore this outcome. The purpose of this observational study was to explore the perceptions of caring behaviors by nursing students during their clinical practice training in order to highlight if the level of caring behaviors changes as the nursing course progresses. The Caring Behaviors Inventory-24 (CBI-24) was administered to 331 students, enrolled in the three years of an Italian Nursing Course, who accepted to participate in the study (89.2% response rate). The data were analyzed using SPSS software version 26.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL). The total mean score of CBI-24 was 4.82 in the first, 5.12 in the second and 5.26 in the third-year students. The CBI-24 dimensions \"Responding to individual needs\" and \"Being with\" obtained the highest scores among the students of the first year. At the end of the first year, our students were already able to perform expressive caring, whereas instrumental caring developed at a high level in the second and third years. We did not highlight any statistically significant difference between the two gender CBI-24 item scores. In light of our results, we put in evidence that Nursing Degree Programme favours the development in students of both relational and technical components of caring behaviors. We hope that in future students' self-assessment of caring behaviors could be considered an educational outcome for Nursing Programme.

Caring is an expected part of professional nursing practice according to the American Nurses Association's (ANA, 2015) Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements and Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice (ANA, 2021). Assignment Objectives Students were required to find two recent evidence-based (EB) articles from scholarly health care journals that related to caring in nursing and then summarize the key points from each article, describing what they learned from the research. The statements, which were adapted from the book, Measuring Caring: International Research on Caritas as Healing (Nelson & Watson, 2012), included: (1) every day I was cared for, I saw that care was provided with compassion and kindness; (2) my caregivers were good at creative problem solving to meet my individual needs and requests; (3) my caregivers honored my faith, instilled hope, and respected my beliefs as part of my care; (4) when my caregivers taught me something new, they taught me in a way I could understand; (5) my caregivers responded to me as a whole person, helping to care for my needs and concerns; (6) my caregivers established a helping and trusting relationship with me during our time together; (7) my nurses were authentically present, consistently creating a safe, healing environment; and (8) I felt comfortable in the care of my nurses.

AimTo determine the association between the perception of a caring climate in hospitals and patient safety attitudes of nursing interns, and the multiple mediating effects of professional identity and transition shock on this relationship.BackgroundLimited research has been conducted on the involvement of nursing interns in patient safety management and the direct relationship between the perception of a caring climate in hospitals and patient safety attitudes of nursing interns. Furthermore, it remains unclear whether professional identity and transition shock play significant roles as mediating factors in this relationship.DesignA cross-sectional study.MethodsThis study employed a convenience sampling to recruit 356 nursing interns from 30 nursing schools in a comprehensive hospital in Hunan Province, China, between December 2022 and April 2023. Data on general information, the perception of a caring climate in hospitals, professional identity, transition shock, and patient safety attitudes was collected from nursing interns using a general information questionnaire and reliable scales. This study utilized a structural equation model with AMOS 24.0 to examine the relationship between variables.ResultsThe perception of a caring climate in hospitals directly impacted patient safety attitudes of nursing interns (Effect = 0.253, 95% confidence interval: 0.218–0.542). Meanwhile, the perception of a caring climate in hospitals indirectly influenced patient safety attitudes of nursing interns through multiple mediating factors, including professional identity and transition shock (Effect = 0.037, 95% confidence interval: 0.017–0.073).ConclusionTo ensure patient safety, it is crucial to enhance patient safety attitudes of nursing interns. Our findings suggest that nursing educators and managers can enhance patient safety attitudes of nursing interns by establishing a caring climate. Professional identity and transition shock are important mediators of the patient safety attitudes. Additionally, nursing educators can implement measures to foster a positive work environment, including providing care and support to nursing interns and reducing their workload, to increase professional identity, alleviate transition shock, and ultimately enhance patient safety attitudes of nursing interns.Tweetable abstractThe relationship between the perception of caring climate in hospitals and patient safety attitudes of nursing interns. Professional identity and transition shock play multiple mediating roles in the relationship. #PatientSafetyAttitudes #NursingInterns #CaringClimate.

Introduction Caring ability is a necessary ability for nursing staff, which can be improved through acquired training. The cultivation of students’ caring ability is the key to determine the quality of nursing in the future. While there is an extensive body of literature on the caring abilities of nursing students, numerous factors influence these abilities, and there remains a paucity of research on the nexus between self-compassion and caring ability. This study aimed to investigate the mediating roles of altruistic behavior and communication skills in the relationship between self-compassion and caring ability among nursing students. Methods The subjects of this study were 1567 undergraduate nursing students from four universities in different regions of China. An online survey was conducted using the Caring Ability Inventory (CAI), Self-Compassion Scale (SCS), Altruistic Behavior Questionnaire of College Students (ABQ-CS), and Supportive Communication Scale (SCS). SPSS 25.0 was utilized for descriptive analysis, independent sample t-tests, variance analysis, and Pearson correlation analysis. AMOS 23.0 was employed for mediation analysis. Results The total scores of caring ability was 184.65 ± 23.65. The results showed that caring ability was significantly correlated with self-compassion( r  = 0.614, P <0.001), altruistic behavior ( r  = 0.698, P <0.001) and supportive communication skills ( r  = 0.581, P <0.001). The direct effects of self-compassion (β = 0.304;0.259 ~ 0.349), altruistic behavior (β = 0.429;0.380 ~ 0.477), communication skills (β = 0.151; 0.110 ~ 0.194) on caring ability were confirmed. The self-compassion has indirect effects (β = 0.312;0.278 ~ 0.348) on caring ability by altruistic behavior and supportive communication skills among nursing student. The indirect effects accounted for total effect 30.88% with the direct effects accounted 69.12%. Conclusions The caring ability of nursing students is at the medium level. The altruistic behavior and communication skills of nursing students have mediating roles between self-compassion and caring ability. To improve caring ability for nursing students, educational strategies must be created to improve the self-compassion, altruistic behavior and communication skills. Interventions that self-compassion nursing students have the potential to enhance caring ability.

Background Education in nursing has noticed a positive effect of simulation-based education. There are many studies available on the effects of simulation-based education, but most of those involve a single institution, nonrandomized controlled trials, small sample sizes and subjective evaluations of the effects. The purpose of this multicenter randomized controlled trial was to evaluate the effects of high-fidelity simulation, computer-based simulation, high-fidelity simulation combined with computer-based simulation, and case study on undergraduate nursing students. Methods A total of 270 nursing students were recruited from five universities in China. Participants were randomly divided into four groups at each institution: the high-fidelity simulation group, the computer-based simulation group, the high-fidelity simulation combined with computer-based simulation group, and the case study group. Finally, 239 participants completed the intervention and evaluation, with 58, 67, 57, and 57 participants in each group. The data were collected at three stages: before the intervention, immediately after the intervention, and three months after the intervention. Results The demographic data and baseline evaluation indices did not significantly differ among the four groups. A statistically significant difference was not observed between the four methods for improving knowledge, interprofessional collaboration, critical thinking, caring, or interest in learning. While skill improvement differed significantly among the different groups after the intervention ( p  = 0.020), after three months, no difference was observed ( p  = 0.139). The improvement in skill in the computer-based simulation group was significantly lower at the end of the intervention than that in the high-fidelity simulation group ( p  = 0.048) or the high-fidelity simulation combined with computer-based simulation group ( p  = 0.020). Conclusions Nursing students benefit equally from four methods in cultivating their knowledge, interprofessional collaboration, critical thinking, caring, and interest in learning both immediately and over time. High-fidelity simulation and high-fidelity simulation combined with computer-based simulation improve skill more effectively than computer-based simulation in the short term. Nursing educators can select the most suitable teaching method to achieve the intended learning outcomes depending on the specific circumstances. Trial registration This clinical trial was registered at the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (clinical trial number: ChiCTR2400084880, date of the registration: 27/05/2024).

Professionals in caring disciplines have been pivotal in advancing virtual care, which leverages remote technologies to deliver effective support and services from a distance. Educators in these caring professions are required to teach students the skills and competencies needed to provide high-quality and effective care. As virtual care becomes more integral, educators must equip students in these fields with both interpersonal and technological skills, bridging traditional hands-on learning with digital literacy. However, there is a gap in evidence exploring educators' perceptions and experiences of teaching caring profession students about virtual caring skills within online environments. This study aims to better understand caring profession educators' online teaching experiences to foster student development of virtual caring skills and competencies. We used a sequential explanatory mixed methods approach that integrated a cross-sectional survey and individual interviews with educators from caring professions to better understand caring professional educators' online teaching experiences to foster student development of virtual caring skills and competencies. The survey's primary objectives were to examine the various elements of existing e-learning opportunities, delve into educators' perspectives and encounters with these opportunities, and identify the factors that either facilitated or hindered online teaching practices to support students in developing virtual caring skills and competencies. The individual interview guides were based on survey findings and a systematic review of the evidence to gain deeper insights into educators' experiences and perspectives. A total of 82 survey participants and 8 interview participants were drawn from educators in the fields of education, medicine, nursing, and social work. Various instructional methods were used to help students develop virtual caring skills, including reflections on learning, online modules, online discussion boards, demonstrations of remote care, and consultation with clients. There was a statistically significant difference between educators' level of experience teaching online and their satisfaction with online teaching and learning technologies (P<.001) and between educators' faculties (departments) and their satisfaction with online teaching and learning technologies (P=.001). Participants identified barriers (time constraints, underdeveloped curriculum, decreased student engagement, and limited access to virtual caring equipment and technology), facilitators (clearly defined learning objectives, technology software and support, teaching support, stakeholder engagement, and flexibility), and principles of teaching virtual caring skills in online environments (connection, interaction, compassion, empathy, care, and vulnerability). Our study identifies the barriers, facilitators, and principles in teaching virtual caring skills, offering practical strategies for educators in caring professions. This study contributes to the growing body of educational research on virtual caring skills by offering educator insights and suggestions for improved teaching and learning strategies in caring professions' programs. As educational practices evolve, future research should explore how traditionally in-person educators can effectively teach virtual caring skills across diverse contexts.

In an increasing technologised and cost-constrained healthcare environment, the role of pre-registration nursing education in nurturing and developing the professional caring disposition of students is becoming far more critical than before. In view of this growing demand, the aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of Singapore's pre-registration nursing programmes on students' concept of caring. A descriptive quantitative cross-sectional survey collected data using the Caring Behaviour Inventory from first and final year student nurses, nurse lecturers and nurses in practice. The findings based on student surveys indicated a statistically significant reduction in the overall level of caring behaviour in first to final year students. When compared with the findings of lecturers and nurses, less variance to lecturers than to nurses was found amongst the first years' score, and the lowest variance to nurses was demonstrated amongst the final year. A greater reduction was evidenced amongst Singaporean students, which was exaggerated with exposure to pre-enrolled nursing education and magnified with caring job experience. This study indicates more effort is necessary to harness student caring attributes in students' entire educational journey so that expressive caring is not subsumed in the teaching of students to meet demands of complicated contemporary care. •We examine caring behaviour inventory (CBI) score of first and final year students.•We compare students' CBI scores with that of lecturers and nurses in practice.•First year scores resembled lecturers' and final year scores resembled nurses'.•Level of caring behaviours decreases from first to final year students.•More effort is required in nursing education to harness student caring attributes.