The Effectiveness Of Training In Developing Clinical Empathy Skills Among Undergraduate Nursing Students

Background: An increasingly important prerequisite for nursing students' emotional stability, well-being, and patient-centered care is understanding their compassion and empathy. \ Nursing students who lack the skill to provide empathy when providing patient care become stuck or unsure about what to do in specific clinical circumstances. Empathy training is required to build their attitudes. Objectives: The study assesses how well empathy training influences undergraduate nursing students' clinical empathy. Method: A quantitative pre-experimental methodology with an experimental one-group pretest post-test time series design was adopted in this study. The personality traits of each participant were assessed along with socio-demographic variables. Jefferson’s empathy scale for health professional students was chosen to evaluate the students' empathy abilities. Results: Male, female ratio was 1:4. 56% of students had an intention to work as a bedside nurse. The difference is statistically significant when comparing the pre-test and the post-test values (p<0.001). The empathy level was significantly correlated (p<0.05) with age, gender, family type, income, and birth order. Conclusion: Nursing students improved their clinical empathy skills with empathy training. Strengthening empathy education into curricula would improve patient-centered care, reduce malpractice risk, and increase patient satisfaction.