Articles: empathy.
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Multicenter Study
The impact of nurses' empathic responses on patients' pain management in acute care.
Although nurses have the major responsibility for pain management, little is known about nurses' responses to patients in the process of managing acute pain. ⋯ Empathy was not associated with patients' pain intensity or analgesic administration.
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Intensive Crit Care Nurs · Jun 2000
Intensive care nurses' experiences of caring. Part 2: Research findings.
In considering the concept of caring, this second paper presents the research findings obtained from a phenomenological study conducted to answer the question 'what is caring for nurses working in intensive care?'. Unstructured, in-depth interviews were conducted to collect data on the experiences of nine staff nurses, who volunteered to participate in the study. Three major themes were drawn from the data using Colaizzi's procedure of inductive reduction. ⋯ A resultant description of caring identified that these nurses participated in delivering three types of caring involving physical, technical and emotional labour. These were 'being close', 'being there' and 'doing to'. Implications for nursing practice, education and further research are suggested.