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Practical nursing skills: a caring approach
Published in Nicola Neale, Joanne Sale, Developing Practical Nursing Skills, 2022
All the values are important for people being cared for by nurses to have positive experiences. Roach (2002) argued that compassion is needed more than ever to humanise the ever-increasing cold and impersonal technology used within healthcare. Box 1.6 illustrates this need with a nurse’s act of compassion that occurred in the highly technical environment of the intensive therapy unit. Communication is essential for portraying compassion and building relationships and is discussed in detail in Chapter 2. Hudacek (2008) found that compassion requires nurses to be present for the person both emotionally and physically and to focus on alleviating suffering and pain through empathic concern. In a study of compassion within the relationship between nurses and older people with a chronic disease, van der Cingel (2011) revealed seven dimensions of compassion: attentiveness, listening, confronting, involvement, helping, presence and understanding.
The Edge of Earshot
Published in Bobbi Patterson, Building Resilience Through Contemplative Practice, 2019
We certainly tried to teach the protocol’s elements as prescribed, of course, but with intentional practice, we learned to lean into the edges off script. For example, while trying to teach Lesson Five: Empathic Concern in relation to strangers, not just friends, we rarely had luck engaging the group. But during one round of the protocol, while on Lesson Three: Cultivating Impartiality, we were discussing the importance of recognizing that everyone struggles and we all hope for a happy life. We’re interdependent – in this together. At that point, an irate group member brought up his problem with empathy for a stranger.
Grief and the Virtue of Compassion
Published in Aaron D. Cobb, A Virtue-Based Defense of Perinatal Hospice, 2019
Collective feeling is a kind of affect-sharing in which members of an organization feel concern together for the sufferer and “share these feelings more widely with one another” (Kanov et al. 2004, 817). This can occur through either explicit communication or more rudimentary forms of emotion contagion. As with collective noticing, there are social structures that enable or encourage shared affective appreciation of the suffering of members within an organization. For instance, the tone a leader sets through his or her own communication of emotions can contribute to a culture that values sharing in the suffering of others. In organizations with such a culture, “members will be more likely to feel and express empathic concern for those in distress” (Kanov et al. 2004, 818).
A scoping review on the relationship between mental wellbeing and medical professionalism
Published in Medical Education Online, 2023
Kamran Sattar, Muhamad Saiful Bahri Yusoff, Wan Nor Arifin, Mohd Azhar Mohd Yasin, Mohd Zarawi Mat Nor
Empathic concern is associated with warm, compassionate feelings toward people in distress, whereas personal distress is associated with feeling others’ sadness and discomfort through observation of their negative experiences [55]. Table 1 shows that the results of an included study [45] indicating that empathic concern was correlated with lower burnout scores. In contrast, the other type of empathy, personal distress empathy, is linked with higher burnout scores. Furthermore, there was no significant difference across the empathic concern dimension’s three years of medical training. At the same time, the median scores for the personal distress dimension indicated no significant difference across years. Empathy and burnout have a significant inverse association with each other, as reported by Paro et al [49], and overall, the empathy scores were weakly correlated with quality of life and only moderately correlated with burnout. We also found out that professional burnout could be more closely related to deteriorating empathy than depression is. Furthermore, burnout was inversely correlated with empathy (depersonalisation with empathy independent of gender). In contrast, the students’ sense of personal accomplishment was found to be positively correlated with empathy independent of gender (all p < 0.001) [53].
Empathy is the Message
Published in Psychiatry, 2021
Empathetic capacity derives from social psychology and neuroscience, enabling us to take the perspective of another (cognitive empathy) and feel what another feels (emotional empathy). We respond with empathy when mirror neurons are stimulated by observing the experiential responses of another through, for example, body language. We are more likely to respond with empathy if the other person is similar to oneself, experiences similar events or has similar goals (Riess, 2010). Responding with empathy can be a function of perceived personal risk (Galea, 2020), for example, a person might feel empathy for another’s loss because they can imagine that it could be their loss. The experience of, ‘it could have been me,’ in response to someone who has died is the cognitive mechanism of identification that can increase one’s feeling of being vulnerable in similar situations (Ursano et al., 1999). Importantly, even if someone is dissimilar to oneself, empathic concern for their suffering can be stimulated by valuing their welfare (Batson et al., 2007).
Empathy and Attending to Patient Religion/Spirituality: Findings from a National Survey of Muslim Physicians
Published in Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, 2021
Mohamed A. Hamouda, Linda L. Emanuel, Aasim I. Padela
Regardless, physicians engage patients from diverse R/S backgrounds on a daily basis and must work through different values and norms in order to provide high quality healthcare. Within clinical encounters, empathic concern about their patients can lead physicians to probe and broach uncomfortable R/S topics that are relevant to patient care. Practicing and honing empathic skills—knowing where patients are coming from and helping them with emotional acceptance—helps clinicians acknowledge patient values and improve clinical interactions, as well as yield positive clinical outcomes. For example, diabetic patients of physicians with high empathy scores have a significantly lower rate of acute metabolic complications, better glycemic indices, and better cardiovascular profiles (Del Canale et al., 2012; Hojat et al., 2011). Similarly, physician empathy is positively associated with improvements in cancer patients’ mood and quality-of-life (Neumann et al., 2007).