Abstract
Living a healthy lifestyle implies questioning the value of selfcare as a part of student's experiences during their undergraduate course.
Objective:
To describe and understand the nursing students' experiences of selfcare during theirs professional training.
Methods:
Life story, applied through an open interview with 22 nursing students from a Peruvian university, in 2013. The content analysis generated the following categories: conceptualization of care and learning a selfcare.
Results:
Care is a selfcare and wellbeing, something new to be explored. At first there are unsatisfied basic human needs that change when the students are prepared to take care of others.
Conclusions and implications:
The teaching of health care influences the process of being and living healthy. It is necessary to raise awareness of the humanistic training of the professional nurses in order to encourage them to care for themselves.
Keywords:
Nursing care; Nursing students; Nursing education; Selfcare; Qualitative research