Abstract
D.Cur.
The overall objective of this study is to describe a model that will serve as theoretical framework
for facilitating interaction to both nurse educators and nursing students during conflict at a college
of nursing.
There is need for transformation at colleges concerning interaction during conflict and that can
be facilitated through practising the opposite elements of negative interaction, identified in the
field-work of the research study, which is compliance with norms, justice which is fair and equal
treatment, facilitative communication, power sharing, facilitative peer group dynamics. A unique contribution in the model description is the facilitative interaction elements identified
as opposites of the results of the field research, namely:
Compliance with norms
Justice, which is fair and equal treatment
Facilitative communication
Power sharing
Facilitative peer group dynamics.