Student’s Caring Ability at Nursing Faculty of Padjadjaran University

Abstract

A B S T R A C T Caring is the core of nursing values. Caring for nursing students is an important element to learn and practice. There was limited research on the development of the caring ability of nursing students. Students came from different familial, social, cultural, ethnic, and economic backgrounds. The development of students caring ability needs to be considered by educational institutions. This research aimed to describe nursing students’ caring ability at the Faculty of Nursing, Padjadjaran University. This quantitative descriptive study used a proportional stratified sampling method. In total240 students were selected as samples. Data were collected using an Indonesia version of the Caring Ability Inventory and analyzed using descriptive statistics. The results showed that half of the students had low caring ability (50%), less than half of students were in a moderate category (42.5%), and a small percentage of students were in high category (7.5%). In conclusion, nursing student's caring ability mostly were in the low and moderate category. Faculty of Nursing, Padjadjaran University, needs to improve attention to the development of students’ caring ability. Keywords: caring; Faculty of Nursing; students