title: Perspectives of person-centred care.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To ascertain and compare the perspectives of students and lecturers at Edinburgh Napier University and Hanze University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands, regarding person-centred care.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were collected using face-to-face, structured interviews and analysed using a person-centred nursing framework.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Participants believed that person-centred care should be incorporated within pre-registration nursing education.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The way person-centred care is taught varied between the two universities. With the focus on high quality, compassionate care, it is important to identify how nursing curricula can promote these qualities.
authors.affiliation: Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, the Netherlands. e.e.stenbergen@rgu.ac.uk
authors.forename: Eva Elisabeth
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Steenbergen
authors.forename: Roos-Marie
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: van der Steen
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Carolyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bright
authors.forename: Maarten M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Kaaijk
mesh_terms: D004989:Ethics; D006801:Humans; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D006113:United Kingdom