Reviewing Tribunal cases and nurse behaviour: Putting empathy back into nurse education with Bloom's taxonomy

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• 作者：Kerrie Doyle ; ^{doyle@canberra.edu.au" class="auth_mail} ; Catherine Hungerford ; Mary Cruickshank
• 关键词：Empathy ; Bloom's taxonomy ; Nurse education ; Nurse complaints ; Nurse tribunal ; Poor patient outcomes
• 刊名：Nurse Education Today
• 出版年：July 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：34
• 期：7
• 页码：1069-1073
• 全文大小：561 K

文摘

Recent events in the UK and Australia have shown how poor patient outcomes are achieved when the behaviour of nurses lacks empathy. The UK's Francis Inquiry and the Keogh Report both call for an increase in the ‘caring and compassion’ of health care workers. A review of cases presented to the nurses’ disciplinary tribunal in New South Wales' (Australia) also suggests that the majority of complaints against nurses in this jurisdiction is the result of callousness or lack of empathy. Such events reinforce the need for nurse educators to support nursing students to develop the affective attributes of caring and empathy. This paper considers how to raise the awareness of undergraduate students as a first step to developing empathy by using Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives; and includes a description of how to facilitate interactions with undergraduate nursing students about caring with empathy. Enculturating empathy is an evidence-based method of increasing compassionate care in health organisations generally.