Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Empathy on nursing education is an important element in therapeutic communication and in the type of humanized care provided, due the strengthening of the nurse-patient relationship depends on this.OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the levels of empathy on nursing students of a Higher Education Institution. Cartagena de Indias/Colombia.MATERIAL & METHODS: Cross-sectional exploratory study. A sample of 320 nursing students from first to fourth year of training, to whom the Jefferson Medical Empathy Scale (JMES) was applied in the Spanish version.RESULTS: Levels of empathy are reflected more in women than in men in general. However, some values vary with respect to the average at 3.14 levels in relation to the first year of schooling.CONCLUSION: The need for a curricular redesign and favoring empathic actions by professors worthy of being imitated by students as a way of encouraging empathy when caring for patients.
Highlights
Empathy on nursing education is an important element in therapeutic communication and in the type of humanized care provided, due the strengthening of the nurse-patient relationship depends on this
In the context of health care, empathy plays an important role as a cognitive attribute, which involves an understanding of the patient's experiences, concerns and perspectives, constituting the basis of the nurse-patient relationship from which prosocial and altruistic behaviors emerge, such as: social skills, sympathy, flexibility, tolerance, emotional intelligence, moral judgment, sense of humor, conscientiousness, kindness, among others (Hojat, 2016)
The moral aspects such as solidarity, compassion, altruism, are elements that define a language, but above all, a process of affective and therapeutic communication (Díaz Pérez, 2015), which justifies its incorporation in the training of health care professionals (Nunes, Williams, Sa, & Stevenson, 2011), and especially in the training of nurses, since they contribute to the strengthening of the patient's social relations with other professionals and with their families, which favors the psychological, spiritual and physical improvement of the patient
Summary
Empathy on nursing education is an important element in therapeutic communication and in the type of humanized care provided, due the strengthening of the nurse-patient relationship depends on this. In the context of health care, empathy plays an important role as a cognitive attribute, which involves an understanding of the patient's experiences, concerns and perspectives, constituting the basis of the nurse-patient relationship from which prosocial and altruistic behaviors emerge, such as: social skills, sympathy, flexibility, tolerance, emotional intelligence, moral judgment, sense of humor, conscientiousness, kindness, among others (Hojat, 2016). The moral aspects such as solidarity, compassion, altruism, are elements that define a language, but above all, a process of affective and therapeutic communication (Díaz Pérez, 2015), which justifies its incorporation in the training of health care professionals (Nunes, Williams, Sa, & Stevenson, 2011), and especially in the training of nurses, since they contribute to the strengthening of the patient's social relations with other professionals and with their families, which favors the psychological, spiritual and physical improvement of the patient. Empathic and emotionally competent nurses are required to articulate theory with practice and connecting emotion, reason and experience (Furstenberg, 2015; Hojat et al, 2002; Williams & Stickley, 2010)
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