scholarly journals The relationship between empathy and altruistic motivations in nursing studies: a multi-method study

BMC Nursing ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Messineo ◽  
Luciano Seta ◽  
Mario Allegra
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
Care Process ◽  
First Year ◽  
Young Males ◽  
Young Females

Abstract Background The efficient management of relational competences in healthcare professionals is crucial to ensuring that a patient’s treatment and care process is conducted positively. Empathy is a major component of the relational skills expected of health professionals. Knowledge of undergraduate healthcare students’ empathic abilities is important for educators in designing specific and efficient educational programmes aimed at supporting or enhancing such competences. In this study, we measured first-year undergraduate nursing students’ attitudes towards professional empathy in clinical encounters. The students’ motivations for entering nursing education were also evaluated. This study takes a multi-method approach based on the use of qualitative and quantitative tools to examine the association between students’ positive attitudes towards the value of empathy in health professionals and their prosocial and altruistic motivations in choosing to engage in nursing studies. Methods A multi-method study was performed with 77 first-year nursing students. The Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE) – Health Professions Student Version was administered. Students’ motivations for choosing nursing studies were detected through an open question and thematically analysed. Using explorative factor analysis and principal component analysis, a dimensional reduction was conducted to identify subjects with prosocial and altruistic motivations. Finally, linear models were tested to examine specific associations between motivation and empathy. Results Seven distinct themes distinguishing internal and external motivational factors were identified through a thematic analysis of students’ answers regarding their decision to enter a nursing degree course. Female students gained higher scores on the empathy scale than male ones. When students’ age was considered, this difference was only observed for younger students, with young females’ total scores being higher than young males'. High empathy scores were positively associated with altruistic motivational factors. A negative correlation was found between external motivational factors and the scores of the Compassionate Care subscale of the JSE. Conclusions Knowing the level of nursing students’ empathy and their motivational factors for entering nursing studies is important for educators to implement training paths that enhance students’ relational attitudes and skills and promote the positive motivational aspects that are central to this profession.

scholarly journals The relationship between empathy and altruistic motivations in nursing studies: A multi-method study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Messineo ◽  
Luciano Seta ◽  
Mario Allegra
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
Care Process ◽  
First Year ◽  
Young Males ◽  
Young Females ◽  
Students Attitudes

Abstract Background. The efficient management of relational competences in healthcare professionals is crucial to ensure that a patient’s treatment and care process is conducted positively. Empathy is a major component of the relational skills expected of health professionals. Knowledge of undergraduate healthcare students’ empathic abilities is important for educators in designing specific and efficient educational programmes aimed at supporting or enhancing students’ empathic competences. In this study, we measured first-year undergraduate nursing students’ attitudes towards professional empathy in clinical encounters. The students’ motivations for entering nursing education were also evaluated. This study takes a multi-method approach based on the use of qualitative and quantitative tools to examine the association between students’ positive attitudes towards the value of empathy in health professionals and their prosocial and altruistic motivations in choosing to engage in nursing studies.Methods. A multi-method study was performed with 77 first-year nursing students. The Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE) – Health Professions Student Version was administered. Students’ motivations for choosing nursing studies were detected through an open question and thematically analysed. Using explorative and confirmative factor analyses, a dimension reduction was conducted to identify subjects with prosocial and altruistic motivations. Finally, linear models were tested to examine specific associations between motivation and empathy.Results. Seven distinct themes distinguishing internal and external motivational factors were identified through the thematic analysis of students’ answers regarding their choice of entering the nursing degree course. Female students gained higher scores on the empathy scale than their male counterparts. When students’ age was considered, this difference was shown only for younger students, with young females’ total scores being higher than those of young males. High empathy scores were positively associated with altruistic motivational factors. A negative correlation was found between external motivational factors and the scores of the Compassionate Care subscale of the JSE.Conclusions. Knowing the level of nursing students’ empathy and their motivational factors for entering nursing studies is important for educators in order to implement training paths that enhance students’ relational attitudes and skills and promote positive motivational aspects that are central to this profession.

The relationship between empathy and altruistic motivations in nursing studies: A cross-sectional study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Messineo ◽  
Luciano Seta ◽  
Mario Allegra
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
Care Process ◽  
First Year ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Jefferson Scale Of Empathy ◽  
Value Of Health

Abstract Background. According to the biopsychosocial approach and patient-centred models, efficient management of relational competences by healthcare professionals is crucial to affect a patient’s treatment and care process positively. Empathy is one of the major components of the relational skills expected of health professionals. The knowledge of the empathic ability of undergraduate healthcare students represents important information for educators in defining specific and efficient educational programs aimed at supporting or enhancing empathic competences. In this study, we measured the attitude towards the value of health professional empathy in clinical encounters of the first-year undergraduate nursing students. Motivations for a nursing education choice were also evaluated. We expected a significant association between students’ positive attitude towards the value of health professional empathy and the prosocial and altruistic motivations in choosing nursing studies. Methods. A cross-sectional study was performed on 77 first-year nursing students. The Jefferson Scale of Empathy – Health Professions Student Version was administered. The motivations for choosing nursing studies were detected through an open question.Results. Seven distinct themes, distinguishing between internal and external motivational factors, were identified through the thematic analysis of students’ answers regarding their choice for entering the nursing degree course. On the empathy scale, females gained higher scores than males. When the age was considered, this difference was shown only for younger students, with young females’ total scores being higher than that of young males. High scores of empathy were positively associated with altruistic motivational factors. A negative correlation was found between external motivational factors and the scores of the Compassionate Care subscale of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy. Conclusions. Knowing the level of nursing students’ empathy and their motivational factors for entering nursing studies is important for educators to implement training paths that enhance students’ relational attitudes and skills and promote positive motivational aspects central for this profession.

scholarly journals e-Learning readiness amongst nursing students at the Durban University of Technology

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 300-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilynne Coopasami ◽  
Stephen Knight ◽  
Mari Pete
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Traditional Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
Technological Readiness ◽  
Technological Culture ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
E Learning

e-Learning and other innovative open learning multimedia modalities of delivering education are being introduced to enhance learning opportunities and facilitate student access to and success in education. This article reports on a study that assessed students' readiness to make the shift from traditional learning to the technological culture of e-Learning at a university in Durban. A quasi-experimental study design was employed to assess such readiness in first year nursing students before and after an appropriate educational intervention. A modified Chapnick Readiness Score was used to measure their psychological, equipment and technological readiness for the change in learning method. It was found that, while students' psychological readiness for e-Learning was high, they lacked technological and equipment readiness. Although e-Learning could be used in nursing education, technological and equipment readiness require attention before it can be implemented effectively in this institution. Fortunately, these technical aspects are easier to resolve than improving psychological readiness.

Prejudiced Attitudes of Nursing Students in Southern Spain Toward Migrant Patients

2020 ◽  
pp. 104365962097680
Author(s):  
Inmaculada Alemany-Arrebola ◽  
Fernando J. Plaza del Pino ◽  
María A. Sánchez-Ojeda
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
First Year ◽  
Migrant Population ◽  
Culturally Congruent ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto

Introduction The increase in the migrant population in Spain has transformed the cultural profile of public health care users. The purpose of this study is to recognize the subtle and blatant prejudices nursing students have toward migrant patients. Method An ex post facto descriptive study, using a transversal design ( N = 1,393). Results Males showed a higher degree of prejudice ( p < .05). Students in their first year have more subtle prejudices than those in their fourth year ( p < .005). Blatant prejudice increases from the first year to the fourth year of the degree program ( p < .05). Regarding context, there were differences found between subtle and blatant prejudice (both, p < .05), as students in areas with high migratory pressure showed more prejudiced attitudes toward migrant patients. Discussion Students display subtle prejudices, which is why education in culturally congruent health care must be integrated across all levels of nursing education, with the objective of diminishing prejudice against the migrant population.

scholarly journals Effects of peer mentoring on nursing students’ perceived stress, sense of belonging, self-efficacy and loneliness

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
June M. Raymond ◽  
Kim Sheppard
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
College Level ◽  
Psychological Sense

Mentorship has been around for years and has been explored in nursing education in the clinical settings. Despite evidence that indicates that the academic environment is the most common source of stress, little mentorship implementation and investigation has been done in this environment. The purpose of this research is to describe the effects of a mentorship experience on the level of perceived stress, sense of belonging, self-efficacy, and loneliness by first year baccalaureate nursing students. A quasi-experimental design was conducted.  Seventy baccalaureate nursing students in the first year of their program (n = 34 in the experimental group; n = 36 in the control group) enrolled in a single baccalaureate nursing program were recruited. Third year mentors were purposefully selected by nursing professors within the program. The Perceived Stress Scale, the College Self-Efficacy Inventory (CSEI)–Revised, Sense of Belonging-Psychological, Sense of Belonging-Antecedents, and the Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale were used to evaluate the various concepts as these tools were used in previous research with college level students and deemed to be reliable and valid tools for measuring the relevant concepts. The mentorship program was statistically significant in reducing first year nursing students’ perceived stress and loneliness. It also appeared to increase their sense of self-efficacy and psychological sense of belonging. The mentorship experience could potentially enhance the student experience as well as aid the academic institution in retention and resource maximization. The focus of this research was on the academic mentoring by peers and is worth further exploration and possible wide-scale integration within nursing education.

scholarly journals Patients’ experiences of being nursed by student nurses at a teaching hospital

Curationis ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand C. Mukumbang ◽  
Oluyinka Adejumo
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Student Nurses ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Care Process ◽  
Teaching Hospitals ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Clinical Supervisors ◽  
Nursing Experience

Background: Teaching hospitals are medical institutes at which most nursing education institutions provide their students with practical nursing experience. Although the focus of care is the patient, attention is sometimes focused more on the nursing students rather than on the patients who are undergoing care at the hands of both the nursing professionals and students. However, proper nursing care should also take into account the experiences of patients during the care process in the health facility.Objectives: The study had three objectives: to describe the experiences of patients nursed by student nurses in a teaching hospital in the Western Cape; to identify patterns in the experiences of patients receiving patient care from student nurses; and to analyse aspects of the experiences that may need further attention for the training of student nurses.Method: A descriptive phenomenological approach was used to explore the experiences of patients nursed by student nurses. Participant selection took place purposively from different wards of the identified teaching hospital, and thematic saturation was achieved at 10 participants. The data were collected through in-depth interviews and analysed using thematic content analysis.Results: Three main themes were discovered after data analysis: methods of identification of student nurses by patients; positive perceptions of student nurses by patients; and negative perceptions of student nurses by patients.Conclusion: The findings will inform the clinical supervisors and educational institutions of aspects of the nursing training of student nurses that need improvement and those that require enforcement. 

scholarly journals Nursing students' motivation regulation and its relationship with engagement and burnout

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kati Mäenpää ◽  
Kirsi Pyhältö ◽  
Hanna Järvenoja ◽  
Jouni Peltonen
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Nursing Programs ◽  
Traditional Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Critical Components ◽  
Traditional Learning Environments ◽  
Study Engagement

Motivation regulation, study engagement, and students' wellbeing are critical components of skillful self-regulated learning. However, few studies have focused on these factors and their relationship in nursing education and as there is an increased usage of blended learning in nursing education, measuring students' learning in this setting is increasingly important. This person-oriented, quantitative study explored first-year nursing students' ( N = 90) motivation regulation related to study engagement and study burnout in blended and traditional learning environments in two undergraduate nursing programs. Regardless of the learning environment, the majority of the nursing students (65.6%) had a highly developed motivation regulation profile. They performed highly on motivation regulation, showed strong engagement, and exibhited reduced exposure for study burnout compared to those with less-developed motivation regulation profiles. It is suggested that motivation regulation, study engagement, and experienced burnout influence nursing students' learning. These components should be emphasized in developing nursing education and facilitating nursing students' learning.

scholarly journals Developing mature empathy among first-year students: The learning potential of emotional experiences

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 128-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Sophie Konow Lund ◽  
Anne Kari Tolo Heggestad ◽  
Per Nortvedt ◽  
Bjørg Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Learning Trajectory ◽  
First Year ◽  
Learning Potential ◽  
Next Of Kin ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Emotional Work

Nursing students’ ability to develop mature empathy requires emotional work, usually associated with caring experiences in relation with patients and next of kin. This article is based on qualitative in-depth interviews with 11 first-year students, and the research questions were: What characterizes situations in a nursing home that evoke strong emotional reactions in first-year students? What is the learning potential of these experiences? Findings show that facing emotionally challenging situations during their first clinical placement in nursing education aroused strong feelings and commitment among the students. The students tried, however, to find ways to handle emotionally challenging situations both with support in scientific literature, as well as from experience. Nurses were important role models, but could also exemplify characteristics of less empathic behaviour. Developing ‘mature empathy’ requires emotional work so that the students learn to adapt themselves to what will be demanded of them as professional nurses. The findings of this and other studies should alert nurses as well as teachers to the importance of helping students develop empathy as part of their learning trajectory in nursing education.

scholarly journals Sex and age characteristics of daily activity of distance learning students in northern climate

2020 ◽  
pp. 130-135
Author(s):  
O. N. Ragozin ◽  
Ye. Yu. Shalamova ◽  
N. A. Ilyushchenko ◽  
O. V. Ragozina ◽  
I. A. Shevnin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Social Regulation ◽  
First Year ◽  
Young Males ◽  
Young Females ◽  
Northern Climate ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Minimum Performance ◽  
High Educational

The purpose of the work is to study the time preferences of students performing daily tasks during distance learning and to determine if such preferences depend on sex and the year of study. In the absence of social regulation, the daytime and nighttime activity of students corresponded to the distribution of chronotypes that typifies a northern region, with arrhythmic and evening types prevailing but the morning bio-rhythmic stereotype having a minimal representation. With no ‘master timer’ in distance learning, students demonstrated pronounced sex differences in the daily dynamics of performance. Young females had maximum performance during the day and minimum performance at night, which corresponds to the most common type. Young males were observed to have several ascents in their performance during the 24-hour period. First-year and second-year students’ learning behavior was less synchronized with the day-night cycle. The wavelet analysis found insignificant four to five hourrhythmic fluctuations that occurred in the evening hours, during the period of students’ high educational performance.

scholarly journals Empathy in the Curriculum for Patient Care

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Anderson Diaz Perez ◽  
Shirley Paola Fernández Aragón ◽  
Víctor Patricio Díaz Narváez ◽  
Ailem Fernández Beleño ◽  
Elkin Navarro-Quiroz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
First Year ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Therapeutic Communication ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Empathy Scale ◽  
Cartagena De Indias

INTRODUCTION: Empathy on nursing education is an important element in therapeutic communication and in the type of humanized care provided, due the strengthening of the nurse-patient relationship depends on this.OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the levels of empathy on nursing students of a Higher Education Institution. Cartagena de Indias/Colombia.MATERIAL & METHODS: Cross-sectional exploratory study. A sample of 320 nursing students from first to fourth year of training, to whom the Jefferson Medical Empathy Scale (JMES) was applied in the Spanish version.RESULTS: Levels of empathy are reflected more in women than in men in general. However, some values vary with respect to the average at 3.14 levels in relation to the first year of schooling.CONCLUSION: The need for a curricular redesign and favoring empathic actions by professors worthy of being imitated by students as a way of encouraging empathy when caring for patients.

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