Empathy
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Care and meaning in war zone nursing.

29 Nov 2009 During the past century, nurses have served as caregivers for United States military personnel in every major theater of war. Military nurses in the war zone deliver patient care while working in austere conditions, and are under constant threat of ... Read more...

Healing during existential moments: the "art" of nursing presence.

29 Nov 2009 This article addresses nursing presence, a phenomenon essential to holistic nursing care. The concept is introduced and explained, supporting background information is reviewed, barriers are identified, and successful applications are illustrated in ... Read more...

Moral accountability and integrity in nursing practice.

29 Nov 2009 The therapeutic nature of the nurse-patient relationship is grounded in an ethic of caring. Florence Nightingale envisioned nursing as an art and a science...a blending of humanistic, caring presence with evidence-based knowledge and exquisite ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Empathy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Care and meaning in war zone nursing. 29 Nov 2009
• Healing during existential moments: the "art" of nursing presence. 29 Nov 2009
• Moral accountability and integrity in nursing practice. 29 Nov 2009
• Art, science, or both? Keeping the care in nursing. 29 Nov 2009
• Trust, power, and vulnerability: a discourse on helping in nursing. 29 Nov 2009
• Iranian nurses' preparation for loss: finding a balance in end-of-life care. 10 Nov 2009
• Teaching and learning moments. A lesson in ethics. 30 Oct 2009
• Felt obligation to help others as a protective factor against losses in psychological well-being following functional decline in middle and later life. 11 Oct 2009
• The power of apology. 7 Oct 2009
• Synchronous with your feelings: sensorimotor {gamma} band and empathy for pain. 5 Oct 2009
• Surviving critical illness: acute respiratory distress syndrome as experienced by patients and their caregivers. 29 Sep 2009
• Sensations evoked in patients with amputation from watching an individual whose corresponding intact limb is being touched. 29 Sep 2009
• Enhancing meaning in work: a prescription for preventing physician burnout and promoting patient-centered care. 21 Sep 2009
• Association of an educational program in mindful communication with burnout, empathy, and attitudes among primary care physicians. 21 Sep 2009
• Every physician should have a migraine. 2 Sep 2009
• Developing a nursing education project in partnership: leadership in compassionate care. 30 Aug 2009
• Initial construction and validation of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory. 30 Aug 2009
• Valued to the end. 30 Aug 2009
• [Empathy, a just milieu between clinical and daily ethics] 30 Aug 2009
• Municipal night nurses' experience of the meaning of caring. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Empathy'

Definition: An individual's objective and insightful awareness of the feelings and behavior of another person. It should be distinguished from sympathy, which is usually nonobjective and noncritical. It includes caring, which is the demonstration of an awareness of and a concern for the good of others. (From Bioethics Thesaurus, 1992)

Descriptor UI: D004645

Alternative terms: Empathy; Caring; Compassion;

Tree Number: F01.752.355;

History Note: 71

Technical Notes: no qualif