[The concept of caring applied to nursing education--based on Milton Mayeroff's work].

ABSTRACT

This paper is intended to explore the way to apply the concept of caring in nursing education. In particular, the authors examined the concept based on Mayeroff's work. During the past two decades in the United States, the "Curriculum Revolution" shifted the paradigm from a content-driven curriculum to one that emphasized transaction and interaction with caring as a core concept. M. Mayeroff asserts that the primacy of caring is to help the other grow. A teacher should know a student personally and adjust her/his behavior to response of the student. She/He can believe that the student will develop her/his potential. If faculty effectively, organized the curriculum to offer the environment of interaction students could learn caring as a nurse through their daily activities. Also a teacher is able to play a role model for caring.