@article{article_414588, title={Evaluation of empathic tendency levels of the intensive care unit nurses in terms of various variables}, journal={Turkish Journal of Health Science and Life}, volume={1}, pages={7–13}, year={2018}, author={Şentürk, Sibel and Uçak, Ayşe}, keywords={Yoğun bakım hemşireliği,Empatik Eğilim, Empatik Eğilim Ölçeği.}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"> <b> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">Objective: </span> </b> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">The aim of this research is to evaluate empathic
tendency levels of the nurses who work at the intensive care units in terms of
various variables. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"> <b> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">Methodology: </span> </b> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">138 nurses who work at the intensive care units and
accepted to participate in the research were included in this descriptive
research. The research was carried out using a Nurse Descriptive Form designed
by the researchers after literature review 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. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"> <b> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">Results </span> </b> <b> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">: </span> </b> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> It was found out that 80.4 % of the participant nurses were females,
mean age was </span> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">32.05 <u>+ </u>
5.39, mean working time at the intensive care unit was 3.46 <u>+ </u> 3.09, 38.4
% had graduate degree and 86.2 % worked in shifts. Mean score of Emphatic
Tendency Scale of the nurses was 72.77 <u>+ </u> 8.48. 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). </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"> <b> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">Conclusions: </span> </b> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">
It was found out that nurses’ empathic tendency scores were good. It may be
recommended that empathy and communication topics should be dealt more widely
in the on-job trainings because empathic approach is an effective factor for
increasing the quality of nursing care.  <i> </i> </span> </p> <p> <i> </i> </p> <i> </i>}, number={1}, publisher={Mümin POLAT}