Procedure
Researchers used demographic questionnaires, the professionalism scale, the empathy scale, and the humanistic care ability scale to examine baseline levels in both groups. Students in both the intervention and control groups were required by both schools to keep a minimum of one internship journal for 2 weeks. On this basis, the intervention group substituted the writing of internship logs through narrative medical theory courses and narrative writing, while the control group did not. At the end of clinical practice, the test results of the professionalism scale, empathy scale, and humanistic care ability scale were first compared between the two groups before and after the intervention, and secondly, the test scores were compared within the group before and after the intervention to assess the effectiveness of the intervention. We approached and assessed 85 fourth-year nursing students to participate in the study, with three students in the experimental group and two in the control group unable to complete the final assessment, as shown in Fig. Flowchart of the inclusion of study participants according to CONSORT diagram