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This study was conducted to explore how students come to know persons as caring and how caring is expressed using a high-fidelity human simulator in emergent nursing situations. Using a caring teaching framework of briefing, encountering, and debriefing to structure a simulated experience grounded in a caring nursing situation, this qualitative research study used a focus group method to generate data. Themes and thematic categories that emerged from the data included knowing persons from significant others, utilizing ways of knowing in nursing, and nursing calls and responses. Implications for nursing education, research, and practice are presented and discussed.

Nursing is a discipline of knowledge and a field of professional practice grounded in caring (Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing Philosophy, 2005). Simulation in nursing education generally does not take an approach that recognizes the unique individual who is dynamically interconnected with others and the environment in a caring relationship. The challenge has been to develop simulation scenarios that integrate and appreciate multiple ways of knowing in nursing. This paper describes a process for assuring that the learning of nursing using simulation technology is grounded in caring.