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KMID : 0376219830200030577
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Chonnam Medical Journal
1983 Volume.20 No. 3 p.577 ~ p.583
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Empathic ability in nurse-patient relationships
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Abstract
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Empathy is the most critical component of the helping relationship or therapeutic interaction.
Present-day nursing demands nursing personnel with high levels of empathy.
This study was designed to investigate empathy in the nurse-patient relationship in order to improve therapeutic nursing skills.
118 clinical nurses and 82 senior nursing students were surveyed from August to September, 1983 and the results were as follows.
1. Empathic ability scores for nurses in this study were found to be in the mid-range levels of possible scores.
Nursing students obtained higher empathy scores than clinical nurses.
2. This empathic ability appears to be influenced by the experience of admission by the subject herself and/or one of her family members.
3. Factors such as number of siblings, marital status and length of practice did not have any predictive value for determining nurse empathic ability.
4. Head nurses obtained higher empathy scores than staff nurses.
5. The degree of job satisfaction is significantly related with the level of empathy in clinical nurses.
6. There was a progressive increase in mean empathy scores by the degree of satisfaction found in nursing students.
7. Psychiatric nurses obtained higher empathy scores than general nurses.
8. Nurses perceived themselves as needing increased empathic ability (92.4%)
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