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Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes1, Maria Auxiliadora Trevizan1, Mirella Castelhano Souza1
1University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Nursing Ethics
|July 17, 2018
Summary
Nursing freshmen exhibit high empathy, crucial for developing well-rounded professionals. Students in the Bachelor and Teaching Diploma program showed greater interpersonal flexibility and altruism compared to Bachelor program students.
Area of Science:
- Nursing Education
- Psychology
Background:
- Empathy is a core competency in nursing, essential for effective patient care.
- Understanding the empathic profile of nursing students is vital for curriculum development.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze the empathic profile and scores of nursing course freshmen.
- To compare empathy levels between different nursing program modalities.
Main Methods:
- A descriptive study was conducted with 399 freshmen from two nursing course modalities (Bachelor and Bachelor and Teaching Diploma).
- Data were collected using a sociodemographic questionnaire and the Empathy Inventory.
- Ethical approval and informed consent were obtained, ensuring participant anonymity.
Main Results:
- Participants had a mean age of 19 years, with 85.5% being female.
- All student groups demonstrated high empathy scores.
- A statistically significant difference (p < 0.001) indicated higher empathy in the Bachelor and Teaching Diploma program students, particularly in Interpersonal Flexibility and Altruism.
Conclusions:
- Nursing undergraduate freshmen possess a strong empathic profile.
- While minimal differences exist between program modalities, the overall high empathy is promising for future nursing professionals.
- This empathic capacity supports the development of nurses balancing instrumental and expressive competencies.
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