The caring competencies of nursing students: Comparing the four and two-year Bachelor of Nursing Programme Authors Amir Sultan Saidu Group of Teaching Hospital, Swat, Pakistan Sabiha Khanum Institute of Nursing, Khyber Medical University, Peshawar, Pakistan Najma Naz Institute of Nursing, Khyber Medical University, Peshawar, Pakistan Sheraz Khan Bacha Khan Medical Complex, Sawabi, Pakistan Sardar Ali Institute of Nursing, Khyber Medical University, Peshawar, Pakistan Shakirullah Florence Institute of Medical Sciences, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan DOI: https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.8346 Keywords: Nursing care, Nursing education, Clinical nursing research Abstract The study was conducted to determine and compare the caring behaviours of nursing students in four-year BS Nursing (Bachelor of Science in nursing) and two-year Post-RN BSN (Registered nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing) programmes. A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted in the nursing institutes of KP from July to September 2022. The sample size was 383 calculated by using the Rao soft sample size calculator. through Caring Behaviour Inventory (CBI-24) having six point Likert scale. Descriptive and inferential statistics were calculated through SPSS 20.0. There were more males, i.e. 60.6%, as compared to female students (39.4%). The overall mean score of caring competencies of Post-RN BS Nursing (Registered nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing) was 27.17± 2.17 which is higher than 23.19± 4.1 for BSN students (Bachelor of Science in nursing). Caring behaviours of overall participants are correlated with gender (p-0.001), age (p-0.001), and semester (p-0.001). ---Continue Downloads Full Text Article Published 2023-12-24 How to Cite Sultan, A., Sabiha Khanum, Najma Naz, Khan, S., Sardar Ali, & Shakirullah. (2023). The caring competencies of nursing students: Comparing the four and two-year Bachelor of Nursing Programme. Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 74(1), 123–125. https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.8346 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue Vol. 74 No. 1 (2024): JANUARY Section SHORT COMMUNICATION License Copyright (c) 2020 Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.