Empathy Training as the Major Thrust of a Staff Development Program

Abstract

Lynch, for their constant concern, support and understanding whenever I needed them.To the many other people in my world with whom I have experienced and grown."And there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space. The purpose of the study was to obtain an objective measure of the level-of-empathy of professional nurses practicing in an acute-and-chronic-care hospital facility.For those nurses who scored low in empathy, a short-term, human-relations modeled Staff Development Program was designed specifically to train those helping professionals to increase their abilities to perceive and respond with VI greater empathy.The program was outlined to relate to any of the helping professions.

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