Nursing education and benevolence of Chinese culture

A benevolent campus culture and learning environment were fostered learners into personages of benevolent spirit through a series of instructional permeation in the process of education by active caring,inspiration, guidance, role modeling and self-cultivation. The techniques and methods of quantitative in-depth interview was used for 10 teachers and 10 students. Their attitudes, actions, targets, altruism and inductive statements of progression were studied and interpreted as manifestious of active caring mutual concern between teacher and student based on the understanding of benevolence. Benevolence is regarded as a process of growth and self-education which embodies continuous loving care, solicitude, respect for other members of a community and the imperceptible influence of altruism. Key words: Nursing education; Benevolence; Caring