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 Volume 10, Issue 3 (March 2023), Pages: 82-86

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 Original Research Paper

Investigating the educational competency of student nurses in holistic nursing: Recalibrating holistic education

 Author(s): 

 Hamdan Albaqawi *, Vincent Edward Butcon, Bander Saad Albagawi, Mohammed Hamdan Alshammari, Petelyne Pangket, Richard Dennis Dayrit

 Affiliation(s):

 College of Nursing, University of Hail, Hail, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9749-9669

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2023.03.011

 Abstract:

Teaching nursing students a holistic approach to patient care and integrating treatment modalities is a crucial component of traditional holistic nursing education. This study aims to investigate the educational competency of student nurses in holistic nursing by employing a descriptive comparative design among the 209 student nurses from the University of Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Results showed that the student nurses perceived that they have been skillful in the following; professional, legal, and ethical nursing (3.22±.455), management (3.27±.492), leadership (3.29±.493), and professionalism (3.32±.505). On gender and professional, legal, and ethical nursing, there found significant gender differences (t=.822; p=.012). Also, management was found to have significant differences with gender (t=.281; p=.009). Leadership (t=-.694; p>488) and professionalism (t=.885; p>.377) were found to have no significant difference with gender. Moreover, the professional, legal, and ethical nursing (t=.822; p<.001) and management (t=.910; p<.001) were found to have significant differences with the age of the student nurses, while leadership (t=.231; p>.794), and professionalism (t=.270; p>.764) were found no significant difference with age. On civil status, there found a significant difference in professional, legal, and ethical nursing (t=1.337; p<0.001). Meanwhile, management (t=.992; p>.397), leadership (t=.142p>.935), and professionalism (t=1.122; p>.341) were found to have no significant difference with civil status. Incorporating holistic nursing into nursing courses and research programs would help educate student nurses for multicultural practice contexts as healthcare settings become more diverse.

 © 2022 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Competency, Holistic nursing, Education

 Article History: Received 15 September 2022, Received in revised form 6 December 2022, Accepted 7 December 2022

 Acknowledgment 

The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the Scientific Research Deanship of the University of Ha’il Saudi Arabia to this research endeavor through project number RG-191236.

 Funding 

This research has been funded by the Scientific Research Deanship of the University of Ha’il Saudi Arabia with project number RG-191236.

 Compliance with ethical standards

 Ethical consideration

This research protocol has the approval of the Institutional Review Board of the University of Hail.

 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Albaqawi H, Butcon VE, Albagawi BS, Alshammari MH, Pangket P, and Dayrit RD (2023). Investigating the educational competency of student nurses in holistic nursing: Recalibrating holistic education. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 10(3): 82-86

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