Evaluating Changes in Caring Behaviors of Caritas Coaches Pre and Post the Caritas Coach Education Program.

J Nurs Adm

Author Affiliations: Professor (Dr Brewer), The University of Arizona College of Nursing, Tucson; Director, Caritas Coach Education Program (Dr Anderson), and Founder/Director (Dr Watson), Watson Caring Science Institute, Boulder, Colorado; and Distinguished Professor and Dean Emerita (Dr Watson), University of Colorado Denver, College of Nursing, Aurora.

Published: February 2020

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine program effectiveness in changing Caritas leadership, self-caring behaviors, and perceptions of coworkers of participants who completed the Caritas Coach Education Program (CCEP).

Background: The CCEP has been a highly successful education program for individuals who wish to intellectually and experientially learn to teach, live, and practice human caring theory.

Methods: A pretest-posttest descriptive design was used to evaluate changes in perceptions of self-caring, caritas leadership, and coworker behaviors after completion of CCEP.

Results: The mean scores of all measures improved significantly.

Conclusions: After completion of CCEP, participants demonstrated statistically significant changes in 3 caritas measures: leadership, coworker, and self-rating. Caritas Coach participants exhibited the greatest change in their self-caring scores.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7043726PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/NNA.0000000000000846DOI Listing

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