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KMID : 0928020130170020001
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Nursing and Innovation
2013 Volume.17 No. 2 p.1 ~ p.11
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Literature Review of empathetic studies for nursing students
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Chung Bok-Yae
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze the results of empathetic studies for nursing students’.
Methods: 22 empathetic research results published in the journals between January 2000 and August 2013 were reviewed.
Results: The key concepts appeared in descriptive correlational studies were ’students’ and ’culture’. The variables related to empathy were ’grade’, ’age’, ’sex’, ’religion’, ’academic degree’, ’ethnicity’, ’willing to work as a nurse’, ’willing to study nursing, ability to sense other’s feeling’, ’attitude to patients’, ’academic clinical experience’, and ’spiritual perspective’. The relational variables of empathy were ’cultural sensitivity and knowledge’, ’ego’, ’attitude of life’, and ’attachment’. Concepts adopted in experimental empathy researches were ’mindfulness’, ’stress’, ’communication skills’, ’caring’, ’training’, ’feature films’, and ’wit’. The programs to increase the ability of empathy were ’psychiatric clinical course’, ’FACT program’, and ’normal academic training programme’. Jefferson scale of Empathy(JSE) was used frequently in study of empathy.
Conclusions: It will be needed to further study related to empathy in the meaning of empathy among Korean nursing students, the variables related to empathy and the program to increase the ability of empathy. Empathy instrument to prove the reliability and validity and to reflect the Korean culture should be developed and testified for the further empathy study.
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KEYWORD
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Empathy, Nursing Student
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