Nurse educators must be fully aware of uncaring incidents
and need to be alert to the consequences of such
negative experiences [35]. Uncaring experiences are
commonly understood as a barrier to professional development
of caring. As evidenced by Brainard and Brislen’
study [36] and the research of Byszewski et al. [37], unprofessional
conduct by medical educators was the barrier
to medical professionalism education. Yet negative
role models such as uncaring incidents, inappropriate
clinical teachers and unprofessional behaviors in preclinical
and clinical environment experienced by students
were reported by many researchers [37-42]. For
medical educators, the question is: how to respond to
the negative role models since they continue to exist
in today’s health care environment and education system.
Ignorance of the problem will lead to devastating
consequences. Byszewski et al. [37] pointed out that over
time, behaviors that the students previously considered
unprofessional, became increasingly more acceptable as