Empathy Among Nurses

Identifying the differences and relationship of compassion satisfaction, fatigue, burnout and empathy among nurses can yield results that will help to improve communications and increase the frequency and quality of human connections between the nurses and clients. The study will benefit the hospitals and its patients since the growing body of medical evidence showed that compassionate care is associated with greater adherence to prevention and treatment recommendations, malpractice claims, fewer medical errors, and better health outcomes. The study could be the means to resolving the problem that lies in the recognition of both compassion and empathy as key determinants to patient care. Hospitals, whether private or government, could work towards the promotion of abovementioned factors of their employees by creating a healthy work environment that enhances advancement, growth, and trusting relationships through the improvement of policies and administrative measures and working conditions. The attainment of these objectives can only be made possible through the collaboration of the different sectors of society in coming up with legislations and policies that seek to weave health care professional satisfaction.