Autori: Sibel Kiper
Ustanova zaposlenja: Bozok University Health School (TURKEY)
Ključne riječi: Intensive Care, Nursing, Empathic Tendency, Empathic Tendency Scale
Kongres/Simpozij: ”5. Međunarodni kongres HDMSARIST-a” i ”8. Međunarodni kongres WFCCN-a”
Mjesto i vrijeme održavanja: Šibenik, 12.-15. travnja 2012. godine
Aim:
The aim of the research was to evaluate empathic tendency levels of the nurses
who worked at the intensive care units in terms of some variables.
Tool and Method: 138 nurses who worked at the intensive care units and accepted
to participate in the research were included in the research which was a
descriptive research. The research was carried out using a Nurse Descriptive
Form designed by the researchers after literature screening and Empathic
Tendency Scale in order to evaluate the emphatic tendencies. Official written
approvals of the institutions and nurses’ oral consents were obtained.
Percentage distributions, student t test, Kruskall Wallis and One way ANOVA
were used for data evaluation.
Findings: It was found out that 80.4 % of the participant nurses were females,
mean age was 32.05 + 5.39, mean working time at the intensive care unit was
3.46 + 3.09, 38.4 % had graduate degree, 79.3 % were married and 86.2 % worked
in shifts. Mean score of Emphatic Tendency Scale of the nurses was 72.77 +
8.48. Nurses at the cardiac intensive care unit had the highest emphatic
tendency scores. A statistically significant difference was found between mean
scores obtained from empathic tendency scale and nurses’ considering the
profession appropriate for themselves, considering changing the profession, getting
trainings about empathy and empathizing with the patients (p< 0.05).
Results: It was found out that nurses’ empathic tendency scores were good. It
may be recommended that empathy and communication topics should be dealt with
more in the on-job trainings because empathic approach is an effective factor
for increasing the quality of nursing care.