Keywords
meaning
students
teachers
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Abstract
Objective: This study aimed to describe the meaning of care for students and teachersof the nursing program in the second half of 2011.Methods: descriptive exploratoryresearch with a quantitative approach, performed in a sample of 258 studentsand 29 teachers. To collect information it was used the Assessment Scale for CareMeaning, in Spanish: Escala de Evaluación Del Significado Del Cuidar (EESC, forits intials in spanish), ordinal Likert scale with 45 items divided into five categories:Human characteristic, moral imperative, affection, interpersonal relationship andtherapeutic intervention. The statistical analysis of data was based on the calculationof descriptive measures and non-parametric tests such as the Kruskal-Wallistest (H statistic), Kendall's coefficient of concordance and Wilcoxon test, all under asignificance level equal to 0.05. Results: In the overall performance of students andteachers, the category with the highest average score was care as therapeutic intervention,while the category with the lowest score was the care and affection. However,perception of care is different between students and teachers; statistically significantdifferences between categories were identified: human characteristic, affection andtherapeutic intervention, and it was found that the perception of care regarding thesecategories is higher in teachers. Conclusion: We found no consensus when it comesto caring; there are different perceptions of care that exist simultaneously and arenot exclusive. These ways of perceiving the care influence the conceptualization andpractice of nursing.The journal Investigación en Enfermería: Imagen y Desarrollo is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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