To investigate the current situation of clinical nurses′ caring behavior and patients′ perception of caring, to understand the level of nursing care behavior and analyze the influencing factors, and to discuss the relationship between patients′ perception of caring and clinical nurses′ caring behavior.

The convenience sampling method was used to investigate clinical nurses and inpatients from October to December 2018. The Caring Behavior Checklist was used to observe nurses' nursing care behavior, and the Client Perception of Caring Scale was used to investigate patients' perception of Caring.

A total of 132 clinical nurses were observed and 132 patients were investigated. The score of verbal caring behavior was (3.36±1.44) points (out of a possible 7 points), and the score of non-verbal caring behavior was (2.33±1.07) points (out of a possible 5 points).The overall score of Caring Behavior Checklist was (5.70±2.03) points (out of a possible 12 points). Nurses aged 26-35 (6.42±2.07) points had a higher level of nursing care behavior than nurses of other age groups, and the difference was statistically significant (F=3.902, P<0.05).N1 nurses had a higher level of nursing care behavior than nurses at other levels, it was (7.72±2.30) points, and the difference was significant (F=14.290, P<0.05). There was no significant difference in caring behavior level among nurses with different gender, departments, education backgrounds, academic titles and nursing ages (P>0.05). The overall score of Client Perception of Caring Scale was (43.49 ±3.84) (out of a possible 60 points), and there was a high positive correlation between client perception of caring and nursing care behavior (r=0.720, P<0.05).

The level of clinical nurses′ caring behavior is low, and the training of caring knowledge, belief and behavior should be carried out to promote nurses′ caring behavior, so as to further improve client perception of caring.

Humanistic nursing; Caring behavior; Perception of caring; Current investigation