Download or read book The Measurement and Development of Empathy in Nursing written by William J. Reynolds and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Empathy is crucial to helping -- 2 The problem: Professional helpers, including nurses, do not normally display much empathy -- 3 Analysis: Empathy has not been measured in clients' terms and accordingly taught -- 4 Solution, Part 1: A reliable and valid client-centred empathy scale has now been developed -- 5 Solution, Part 2: Using this scale, a course has been developed which does help nurses to show empathy -- 6 Summary and implications: Such a course may help others to learn as well -- Bibliography -- Appendices 1 The empathy scale and users'guide -- 2 The internal reliability of items on the empathy scale (Cronbach's Alpha) -- 3 The internal discriminations of the empathy scale (phi coefficient) -- 4 Pre- and post-course interview schedules -- 5 Evaluation of the circumstances occurring during counselling interviews in the clinical area -- 6 Rationale for questions on the interview and survey method -- 7 Nurses' attitudes to education -- 8 Effective and ineffective course components -- 9 Barriers to empathic behaviour in nurses' clinical environments -- 10 Content of the self-directed study pack -- 11 The initial activity in the self-directed study pack -- Index