Empathy In Healthcare

Emotional Support and encouraging involvement of family and friends- Listening to patient with undivided attention .Providing clear, timely and meaningful information regarding the illness. Providing enough information regarding the patient’s illness. Respecting and acknowledging the family and friends’ support in patient care and providing supportive environment.

The patients perception is important. For the most part the patients see their health care provider as being accountable for their consideration. Patients need to feel they are not surrendered in their troublesome time.

Human beings are kind and caring in nature. They exude a sense of compassion towards each other. This is called empathy. Humans care for one another and are mostly understanding. However, this not always the case. Sometimes due to adolescence or pure cynicism. This lack of empathy can cause challenges in social relations, rendering empathy of utmost importance. Hence, the characterization of empathy is prevalent in multiple works, including text 3 and 4. Text 3, a comic panel, exhibits the lack of empathy in a simpler manner. It shows the lack of empathy through a paranoid cynicist, a boy afraid of swimming who distrusts his lifeguard. It is later revealed that the lifeguard is also a cynicist, complaining about how she’s doing the job just to pay for university. Therefore, this text shows the audience how the lack of empathy from both ends yielded a lack of understanding. On the other hand, text 4, a poem, displays the significance of empathy in a different and more complex fashion. It reveals

The film on empathy was very touching. I would strongly urge everyone to share this video to have others reflect on its message. I learned that in order to be truly successful in the healthcare industry, or any industry for that matter that directly deals with communicating with customers and/or patients, you must display compassion and genuine care. This film really makes you consider how you empathize in your everyday life and what you can do differently.

Listening to the patient and truly tending to their needs will cause fewer problems and build better relationships. Listening and giving

Empathy provides the nurse with the perspective that is necessary to consider the most appropriate actions and interventions significant to a patient’s individual experience (Boggs. 2011, p.107). Failure of the nurse to empathize with a patient can result in a strained therapeutic relationship as a result of providing inadequate emotional support and client education (Boggs. 2011, p.107). In providing empathetic care it is important to mentally picture the client’s situation and perform self-checks, thereby assessing for personal bias and stereotypes (Arnold. 2011 p. 84). Additionally, there are multiple barriers to providing empathetic care, which include lack of time, lack of trust, lack of privacy, and lack of support, amongst others (Boggs. 2011, p.115).

Improving the patient experience requires a critical dialog. This dialog needs to be encouraged and fostered because when every voice is heard, the patient experience is impacted the most. Organizations that incorporate their patients as essential partners in their own care ensure that their patients receive the best quality care and service.

believe it takes more than direct patient care to deliver excellent care to the patients; it

Patients are central to healthcare delivery, yet their perspectives and input has been rarely considered by providers [1]. Over the last two decades this is beginning to change, and patient-centered care is drawing increasing interest. This shift in focus, from provider-based to patient-based, is highlighting the importance of incorporating patient’s needs and perspectives into care delivery. Furthermore, patients are becoming more engaged in their care, coinciding with the onset of patient-centered healthcare as a major domain of quality by many healthcare providers.

It is important to include the family of the patient in the care. The reason is that the patients are sometimes not in a position to comprehend and answer the necessary questions to the caregivers due to their medical condition. Also, the family members personally know the patient better than the caregivers.

“Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being,” said by Marshall Rosenberg. As a nurse it is a part of your duties to incorporate empathy in the patient care. Nurses care for multiple patients and need to tend to each individual’s needs in order to improve the quality of care. Empathy is an essential intellectual trait that opposes intellectual narrow-mindedness. Intellectual empathy is essential in understanding the patients, being able to communicate with the patients, and being able to provide

Patient engagement in the care:- The patients and their relatives must be informed about their health condition and their treatment needed, by offering a reminder or alert for routine tests and appointments, patient education and counselling sessions.

Most benefits that we humans receive and or give come from things we do everyday. If the saying goes that each action has a consequence, it would also mean that every action has a benefit. Some of those actions consist of helping others or showing empathy towards others. This idea of actions having benefits has been commonly seen throughout the world as a common saying. The saying goes that you get a benefit the equivalent to your actions. To clarify, this means that the benefits of an action would be equal to the greatness of that action. What exactly are the benefits of empathy? We could say that the benefits of empathy are pretty basic or normal, but the most normal and basic things in our world seem to hold the most ingenuity and creativity

Empathy- The Human Connection to Healthcare showed multiple patients with their different situations shown, with their emotions correlated to their situations. Some of the situations and emotions shown paralleled the previous or latter one, with either a worse or better issue or reactions. Each doctor or staff member are still showing professional or empathetic attitudes even if they themselves have situations that would otherwise affect their moods or ability to work. The video focuses on showing how every patient deals with their situation, while contrasting with the support and empathetic attitudes of the doctors who have similar problems.

The introduction and initial contact when really well. The client as well as I were truly engaged in every statement or question. Of courses the first few minutes were a little rough but once I understood where she was trying to go with her situation it was fine. I ask the client if I could record her so that I could make sure I do not miss anything for the assignment and she allowed me to record the session. This was very helpful because the session was very informative, so with that much information I probably wouldn’t have been able to retain everything. My level of empathy was very high. I actually related to her situation when it comes to a father leaving the family and there’s very little that you can do. Knowing that I understood her struggles and feelings, I immediately told myself to be strictly professional and not to get emotional as well.