[Apprenticeship of caring in student baccalaureate nurses in a program of formation of competence].

The nursing profession and university nursing programs both took great strides after universities first introduced nursing programs in and around the 1950s. The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study was to describe the meaning of the apprenticeship of caring through in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program. Watson's human caring philosophy (2008) suggested that researchers explore the meaning persons ascribe to phenomena. Based on semi-structured interviews this phenomenological study described the essence of the phenomenon and revealed that the apprenticeship of caring meant the harmonisation of the "self-perceived" and the "self-lived" that allows the embodiment of caring. The results of this research are available to teachers who may wish to consider its recommendations when planning and developing assessment and training programs for various kinds of nursing clienteles.