Articles: empathy.
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Caring. Core value, currency, and commodity ... is it time to get tough about "soft"?
Consumers of health care expect caring behaviors and become satisfied and loyal customers when their health experience included caring. In today's health care environment, however, caring often takes a back seat to task completion and capital expenditures. ⋯ Stories of caring that occur in spite of diminished resources are inspirational and illustrate these theories. Chief nursing officers share a unique opportunity and imperative to assure that caring stories, the essence of our work, routinely inform decisions made in the executive suite and boardroom.
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Caring is a universal need that is an important component in the delivery of nursing care. Nurse educators face the challenge of teaching the value of caring as a necessary part of nursing. Watson's theoretical framework, which focuses on interpersonal and transpersonal processes in human care, presents an effective model in understanding the concept of caring (1). ⋯ Both models enhance our understanding of caring and provide the theoretical foundation for integrating caring into nursing education. This article describes an associate degree program's effort to thread the concept of caring across its curriculum. It includes an overview of the steps used for integrating caring in individual clinical courses and emphasizes teaching/learning and assessment strategies used in the educational process.
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Pol. Merkur. Lekarski · Mar 2003
[Empathy and motives in choosing medical studies as possible predictors of future physician's career performance].
The article presents an evaluation of empathy level and motives of choosing medical studies as possible predictors of future physicians' career performance. The data for the study was collected based on biographical-environmental charts from the School of Medicine in Gdańsk and questionnaire forms completed by sixth-year students of the faculty of medicine in 1998-1999. The admission test scores and grades obtained during the studies were correlated to the level of empathy and motives of choosing medical studies among the candidates. ⋯ The motives expressed as "Getting the best marks in biology, chemistry and physics at school" and "Getting the job of high social prestige" were significantly correlated with the grades during the first two years of studies. The present admission test seems to be good enough to predict the future students' performance. But it also seems that tools are lacking identifying who wold become a good doctor in future.