Facilitating and hindering experiences to the development of humanistic caring in the academic and clinical settings: an interpretive phenomenological study with nursing students and nurses

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AbstractObjectivesThis paper reports on nursing students’ and nurses’ lived experiences mediating their development of humanistic caring.MethodsUsing interpretive phenomenology, 26 participants were individually interviewed. A five-stage phenomenological analysis based on Benner’s (Benner, P. (1994).Interpretive phenomenology: Embodiment, caring, and ethics in health and illness. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE) method occurred simultaneously.ResultsThe analysis highlighted that the development of humanistic caring is affected by role models and counterexamples, environments in which humanistic caring is exalted or trivialized, communication-related courses, patient storytelling, and work overload.ConclusionsIt might be valuable to raise the awareness of nurse educators about their opportunity in shaping the development of students’ humanistic caring.