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Exploring empathy: a conceptual fit for nursing practice?

J M Morse, G Anderson, J L Bottorff

Image--The Journal of Nursing Scholarship

|January 1, 1992

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Empathy

Area of Science:

Nursing
Clinical Psychology

Background:

The efficacy of empathy in clinical settings is largely undocumented.
Concerns exist regarding empathy's appropriateness and potential harm to nurse-patient relationships.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze the concept of empathy in nursing.
To re-evaluate empathy's fit within clinical nursing practice.
To explore alternative communication strategies.

Main Methods:

Conceptual analysis of empathy.
Tracing the integration of empathy into nursing literature.
Review of existing communication strategies.

Main Results:

Empathy comprises moral, emotive, cognitive, and behavioral components.

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Empathy was adopted uncritically from psychology into nursing.

Empathy may not be suitable for all aspects of nursing practice.

Conclusions:

Empathy's uncritical adoption may be detrimental to nursing.
Re-examination of devalued strategies like sympathy and compassion is needed.
Alternative communication methods may be more appropriate in certain patient care situations.