Chinese Journal of Medical Education ›› 2025, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (10): 796-800.DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn115259-20250123-00095

• Medical Education Assessment • Previous Articles    

A mixed-methods study on the evaluation of the caring ability of nursing students from the perspective of standardized patients

Zhu Xuemei1, Su Han2, Gao Xueqin1, Du Xin1, Cui Yan1   

  1. 1Teaching and Research Section of Clinical Nursing, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, China;
    2Nursing Department, Medical College of Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou 121010, China
  • Received:2025-01-23 Published:2025-09-28
  • Contact: Su Han, Email: Suh0409@163.com
  • Supported by:
    2019 Higher Education Teaching Reform Research Project of Heilongjiang Province (SJGY20190437)

Abstract: Objective From the perspective of standardized patients (SP), this study evaluates the humanistic care ability of nursing students, explores the existing problems, and proposes corresponding solutions.Methods From June to July 2023, a mixed research method based on interpretive sequence design was adopted. Using cluster sampling, 58 students from the 2019 class of the nursing major at a certain medical university in Harbin were selected as the survey subjects. Descriptive analysis was conducted on the scores of students' humanistic care ability in the Objective structured clinical examination. Based on the evaluation results, one-on-one semi-structured interviews were conducted with the SPs.Results The SPs' evaluation scores on students' humanistic care competence showed that compared with other OSCE stations, students scored lower at the nursing skill operation station and the medical order execution station, with scores of (17.40±1.19) points (full score: 20 points) and (7.74±0.98) points (full score: 10 points) respectively. Three themes were extracted from the interview results: (1)Students perceive and judge that patients lack care and emotional needs; (2)Lack of flexibility in students' communication with patients; (3)The level of professional skill operation and humanistic care competence are equally important and mutually influential.Conclusions Nursing students need to improve their abilities to perceive and judge others' care needs and emotional needs, as well as their communication skills. There is a mutual influence between students' professional skill operation level and humanistic care competence. In the future, in-depth research and exploration can be conducted in this field. When formulating nursing education reform strategies, full consideration should be given to the interaction relationships and mechanisms among students' emotional intelligence, communication skills, professional skill operation level, and humanistic care competence.

Key words: Education, nursing, Standardized patients, Nursing students, Humanistic care, Explanatory sequential research  ,  ,  

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