To best improve the bathing care provided by a student nurse, what should the nurse-teacher do?
a. Tell the student how to correctly give baths to clients.
b. Provide the student with good resources to read on bathing clients.
c. Ask another student nurse to provide the bathing care on the next shift.
d. Assist and observe the student in the bathing care of the client.
D
Assisting the student nurse in bathing the client gives the nurse-teacher the opportunity to model caring behaviour. In order for the value of caring to be internalized by the student nurse, there is a critical need for demonstration of caring behaviours and clinical opportunities to practice these behaviours. Caring models are essential to help in the development of a student nurse's capacity to care.
Telling the student how to bath clients correctly is less apt to change the behaviour.
Providing the student nurse with resources does not ensure that the student will read them and change the behaviour.
Asking another student nurse to provide bathing does not address caring behaviours with the first student nurse.
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