Carol Crevacore, Linda Coventry, Christine Duffield, Elisabeth Jacob
Factors impacting nursing assistants to accept a delegation in the acute care settings: A mixed method study
Journal of clinical nursing
background empathic communication skills critical providing highquality nursing care holistically understand patients perspective survey research design used address research questions discussed study data consisted responses nursing students attending accredited programs southeastern united sates using jefferson scale physician empathy nursing student version r jsper findings comparisons total scores jspe versions r yielded similar means standard deviations 115 11457 respectively standard deviations 10 1094 respectively results onesample ttest failed render statistical significance 122 p 224 indicating overall attitudes nursing students medical students similar 25th 50th 75th percentiles overall instrument reliability also comparable conclusions paper supports emergence alternative factor analysis structures applied nursing students statistical progression exploratory factor analysis confirmatory structures implications practice explore utility empathy instruments nurse education empathy progression curriculum nursing educators utility development instruments measure effectiveness teaching strategies pedagogy empathy enhancement practice important