Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ413433
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1990
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Response to "On the Nature and Place of Empathy in Clinical Nursing Practice."
Diers, Donna
Journal of Professional Nursing, v6 n4 p240-41 Jul-Aug 1990
In some instances empathy may serve as a guide to conceptualizing the patient's situation. Empathy is a dangerous notion if it is thought to be mindless, experiential, existential connectedness. Not every nurse-patient encounter will benefit from empathy; some will require theory, applied experience, or even translation or consultation. (MLW)
Descriptors: Caregivers, Empathy, Helping Relationship, Higher Education, Interaction, Interpersonal Relationship, Nurses, Nursing, Patients
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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