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CARING BEHAVIOR OF LEVEL IV NURSING STUDENTS OF COLEGIO DE SAN JUAN DE LETRAN CALAMBA AND THEIR CHOICE OF PSYCHIATRIC NURSING AS A FIELD OF SPECIALIZATION

Klarice Ann Paris | Gladimyr Peduche | Ephraim Perez | Mary Wayne Pojida | Vanessa Jane Pionela | Jaymielyn Pua

Discipline: Nursing

 

Abstract:

The study determined the demographic profile and caring behavior of selected Level IV nursing students of Letran Calamba as well as their choice of Psychiatric Nursing as field of specialization. The study used descriptive comparative method of research. One hundred forty students were selected as respondents using proportionate stratified random sampling method. They were given a self-constructed questionnaire in which results were analyzed using percentage, weighted mean, and tests on two population means for independent samples. Findings showed that the demographic profile of the respondents particularly gender influence their caring behavior and choice of Psychiatric Nursing as their field of specialization because female nursing students preferred the area to be their field of specialization. It was also revealed that the most practiced caring behavior is the existential-phenomenological-spiritual forces and the least practiced is the transpersonal and teaching-learning process. Many of the respondents who chose Psychiatric Nursing are more expressive in their positive and negative feelings.