Aim: This study aimed to explain the understanding of nursing students from the concept of patient-centred care.
Design: This is an explorative and descriptive-qualitative design.
Methods: The participants consisted of 15 nursing students who were selected through purposeful sampling, and data were collected through in-depth, semi-structured interviews and analysed using a qualitative content analysis.
Results: Data analysis led to the identification of three categories including the following: the inevitability of patient-centred care, the patient-centredness in comprehensive care and the importance of nursing process in patient-centred care. Introducing students to the concept of patient-centred care and how it can be achieved seems necessary during nursing education. Introducing a module on patient-centred care to the nursing curriculum is suggested to familiarize students with this concept.
Keywords: content analysis; nursing student; patient‐centred care.
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