This study examines undergraduate nursing students’ experiences of participatingin a Caring Behavior Course using various learning didactics. Twenty-five studentsparticipated in one of five focus group interviews with data analyzed according to qualitativecontent analysis. The main theme to emerge, an insightful and sudden awakeningthat caring is not only theoretical words, was further explained with three themes andnine subthemes. The Caring Behavior Course demonstrates effective learning didacticsto develop awareness of values that influence caring behaviors and can contribute topatient well-being, particularly relevant for the care challenges in the time of COVID-19and beyond.