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Examining Nursing Students' Learning through Reflective Analysis using Ray's Transcultural Caring Dynamics in Nursing and Health Care Theory
BMC Medical Education, Vol.25(1), pp.1-8
2025
PMID: 40247296
Abstract
Background
Critical reflection empowers nursing students understanding as they become caring health professionals. Clinical nursing staff must have cultural sensitivity and empathy to provide culturally relevant care that meets the needs of patients from diverse cultures and ethnicities. Currently, the nursing profession is facing a shortage of nurses, which challenges the quality of care in Taiwan and the global community. An important mission of education is to cultivate nursing students with the professional competence to provide appropriate care to patients and families. This study explored nursing students’ reflections on the meaning of caring in professional nursing.
Method
Data were collected from the written reflections of 32 who completed their basic professional nursing courses at a Taiwanese university. A reflective thematic analysis guided by Ray’s theory of Transcultural Caring Dynamics in Nursing and Health Care, highlighting the dimensions of caring, transcultural ethics, transcultural context, and universal sources (spirituality), was used to provide an understanding of how students viewed integrative patient-centred caring, and how they gained self-awareness and insights into their family relationships.
Findings
Four themes were derived from students’ reflective documents. The identified themes included building a caring experience to meet individuals’ physical and psychological needs; learning caring ethics by respecting individual’s integrity and rights; family, school peers, and communities affecting the caring experience, and exploring teaching and learning approaches to enhance the caring experience.
Conclusions
Findings from students’ reflections indicate that individual patient needs should be considered when providing appropriate nursing care. Additionally, multiple teaching–learning strategies demonstrated their effectiveness in enabling nursing students to develop self-awareness in seeking an understanding of culturally appropriate care decisions.
Details
- Title
- Examining Nursing Students' Learning through Reflective Analysis using Ray's Transcultural Caring Dynamics in Nursing and Health Care Theory
- Authors
- Tzu-Jung Tseng - Chang Gung University of Science and TechnologyMarylyn A Ray - Florida Atlantic UniversityChiung-Jung Wu (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Nursing
- Publication details
- BMC Medical Education, Vol.25(1), pp.1-8
- Publisher
- BioMed Central Ltd.
- Date published
- 2025
- DOI
- 10.1186/s12909-025-07123-9
- ISSN
- 1472-6920
- PMID
- 40247296
- Copyright note
- This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this licence to share adapted material derived from this article or parts of it. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Data Availability
- No datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.
- Grant note
- This study was supported by grants from the Ministry of Education (MOE) Teaching Practice Research Program, Taiwan (number PMN1136055).
- Organisation Unit
- Healthy Ageing Research Cluster; School of Health - Nursing
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991117652502621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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