THE USE OF MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEW IN EDUCATIONS TO PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL NURSING CARE OF STUDENTS

The nursing process includes the development of comprehensive knowledge, skills and attitudes. Ensuring this development and gaining professional values is very important in maintaining professional life. During nursing education, the emotions experienced by student nurses while providing professional care and the meaning they give to education and profession may differ. In the presentation of the nursing profession, which has quite complex and comprehensive knowledge and theoretical background concepts, it is very important for students to be motivated, internalize nursing concepts and develop their own nursing perspectives, believe in the usefulness of their practices, manage possible sudden changes, and make the right decision and practice between ethical dilemmas. In this context, depending on individual differences, the motivation and willingness of nursing students may differ. The use of motivational interviewing approach may be beneficial for people who are needed in their preparation for the profession and in providing professional care. Motivational interviewing is defined as “a client-centered approach that provides behavior change by helping the client discover and analyze the ambivalence they experience, and makes use of directives for this”. It has many uses such as addiction treatment, healthy behavior acquisition, mental problems, diet and nutritional habits, sports gains, drug compliance. Other areas of uses that are not frequently mentioned are education and business life. Therefore, for the purpose of this review is to examine the training and practice motivations of student nurses, who are expected to gain professional care skills, from the perspective of motivational interviewing.