Cindy Martindill’s dissertation research on teaching nursing students through interactive television (ITV) will be featured in the 33rd annual “Caring Connections: Research, Practice, Education” conference, sponsored by the International Association for Human Caring.
“Caring is the core and essence of nursing practice and education. Nursing students learn caring from faculty role modeling in a culture of care found in traditional, face-to-face settings,” said Martindill, who lives in Lancaster, New Hampshire, and is the Northeast Kingdom Site Director for the Vermont Tech Nursing Program. “The purpose of this study was to determine nursing students’ perceptions of how faculty convey caring when instruction is via ITV.”
The “Caring Connections” conference, which will be held on May 30 through June 2 in Philadelphia, brings together nurses and other colleagues to share knowledge, expertise, research, clinical practice, educational strategies, and challenges, and to explore, investigate, and disseminate knowledge gained concerning the influence of human caring science on human caring in health care.
Martindill, who is among a select group of academics invited to present at the conference, will share data and analysis that demonstrate how nursing students perceive the ITV environment, relationship formation, and caring faculty behaviors.
