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Perceived Caring of Instructors Among Online Doctoral Nursing Students

Walters, Gwendolyn Mae
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1372592935

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2013, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Toledo, Higher Education.
The concept of caring has been integral to the practice of nursing and nursing education since the early teachings of Florence Nightingale. Significant changes in both the practice and the need for educating increasing numbers of advanced-degree nurses have resulted in an increase in online doctoral-level nursing programs. This internet¬based survey used the Organizational Climate for Caring Questionnaire and a set of demographic questions to investigate the perceived caring of instructors among self-selected online doctoral nursing students attending one of the AACN 210 institutions. The relationship between attributed caring and intention to drop a course was also studied. Attributed levels of caring were found to be similar to those reported for other categories of nursing students; this held across different types of programs and full- or part-time enrollment status. Students who had not thought about dropping out of an online course were found to have significantly higher levels of attributed caring than those who had. A discriminant function analysis indicated that a decision to drop out of a course is likely to be based on factors in addition the attributed level of caring by an instructor for their students. It remains to be determined how caring, as a motivational variable, is related to academic and or clinical performance among students taking such courses even though it was found that an instructor's use of best educational practices was associated with higher attributions of caring.
David L. Meabon, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Ronald D. Opp, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Sue E. Ikczak, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Mary A. Kozy, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
166 p.
Education; Higher Education; Nursing
attributed caring; best practices; doctoral nursing students; dropout; nursing; online

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  • Walters, G. M. (2013). Perceived Caring of Instructors Among Online Doctoral Nursing Students [Doctoral dissertation, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1372592935

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Walters, Gwendolyn. Perceived Caring of Instructors Among Online Doctoral Nursing Students. 2013. University of Toledo, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1372592935.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Walters, Gwendolyn. "Perceived Caring of Instructors Among Online Doctoral Nursing Students." Doctoral dissertation, University of Toledo, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1372592935

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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