title: Fostering person-centered care among nursing students: creative pedagogical approaches to developing personal knowing.
abstract: Person-centered care (PCC) is grounded in principles of respect, autonomy, and empowerment and requires the development of interpersonal relationships. For nursing students to engage in PCC, they need to intentionally develop personal knowing, which is an essential attribute of therapeutic relationships. Developing personal knowing, as well as professional knowledge, positions students to enact PCC in their practice. Faculty members play a vital role in fostering the development of personal knowing by creating opportunities for students in which genuine and respectful dialogue, reflection, self-awareness, and critical thinking can take place. This article explores several creative approaches faculty have used to actualize these qualities in their teaching-learning encounters with nursing students at various stages of their students' professional development. These approaches offer experiential teaching-learning opportunities that foster the development of personal knowing, as well as constructive and respectful relationships between faculty and students, therefore laying the groundwork for PCC in practice settings.
authors.forename: Jasna K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Schwind
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Beanlands
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lapum
authors.forename: Daria
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Romaniuk
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fredericks
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: LeGrow
authors.forename: Susanna
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: McCay
authors.forename: Jamie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Crosby
mesh_terms: D003405:Creativity; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D012649:Self Concept; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*