Embedding the Humanities into Nursing Education

Mei-Yu Yeh

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Abstract: Humanistic education in nursing began in the 1980s. At that time, nursing education emphasized the human being and regarded each person as a unique individual with potential. However, modern developments in medical technologies and changes in the health-care environment have led to a trend toward dehumanization of the healthcare industry. Various developments, particularly in genetics, have raised issues related to human dignity, value, and ethics. The development of a humanized care model based on both scientific principles and a humanistic ideal has become an urgent issue in today's professional nursing education environment. A humanistic education in the nursing profession will allow nurses to develop a broader perspective, to cultivate insight, to understand and to feel the unique experience of patients, and to look at problems from multiple perspectives, especially in complex situations. The challenge of today's nursing education is using multiple teaching strategies to improve humanistic cultivation of humanities education in the nursing profession.

Keywords: cultivation; humanities; humanistic education; nursing; nursing education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.110615

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