title: The enhancement of clinical competence through caring science.
abstract: This theoretical research attempts to create a new basis for dialogue between two independent research fields that are connected by an inseparable link. The first, nursing science, is a body of professional knowledge, while the second, caring as an independent body of pure knowledge, conducts basic research with an aspiration towards applicability. This theoretical research uses the guidelines of the Buberian dialogue, which provides new meaning to the concept of clinical competence. The results emphasise the need to adopt abstract knowledge into the nursing field in order to improve the graduate's clinical capabilities. The combination of assessing clinical capability in a judgmental manner together with the dialogical humanistic approach of caring science may create a genuine platform and meeting event as a maturing process, which is intended to promote educational goals, which subsequently receive new meaning, that is, a different type of assessment. However, this assessment cannot be measured since a wide range of ethical moral aspects regarding both the student and the patient will have to be included. Nevertheless, this dialogue between nursing science and caring science can implement evidence on the basis of trust and can be used as a dialogical tool for evaluating clinical skills with the goal of empowering the educational field in nursing. Consequently, this clinical competence is called 'caring maturing means', and the goal is to convert the learning process into a meaningful event with the aim of improvement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Novia University of Applied Sciences, Vaasa, Finland; Council for Swedish Education and Culture in Ostrobothnia, Vaasa, Finland.
authors.forename: Rika
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Levy-Malmberg
authors.forename: Yvonne
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hilli
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D006801:Humans; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000592:standards
keywords: caring science; clinical competence; clinical skills; communication; nurse education; nursing science