Evaluating of Psychiatric Simulation Program on Student Nurses' Empathy toward Auditory Hallucinating Patients | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 2, Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2015, Page 13-29 PDF (176.03 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2015.62648 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Nahed Mohamed Ahmed Morsy; Shereen Mohamed Abo- Elyzeed | ||||
| Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Departement, Faculty of Nursing -Tanta University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Caring for and working with client with auditory hallucination can be a challenge for undergraduate student nurses do not get a degree in psychiatric nursing. Facilitating a degree of understanding of these acute states distress is usually most effectively provided in the clinical environment. Empathy is basic for understanding, shared meaning, and mutual trust that lie as the heart of therapeutic nurse - patient relationship. This study aimed to evaluate psychiatric simulation program on nursing students' empathy' toward auditory hallucinating patients. The study followed a quasi-experimental design and was carried out in two settings; the class room at the Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University, and Tanta mental Health Hospital that is affiliated to the Ministry of health. The study subjects include 48 nursing students who were enrolled in psychiatric nursing educational course. Tools: tool (1) of this study was Empathy scale; it was developed by Davis MH. Tool (2) was open end questions were developed by researchers to elicited information about; the subjects emotions that arousal during hearing simulated voices in the program, ways of their coping with these simulated voices, opinion about the effective coping methods, and their perception toward auditory hallucinating patients after the program. The main results refer to; increased level of student nurses' empathy in it's multidimensional after the psychiatric simulation program. It was concluded that the psychiatric simulation program in the present study help students to learn how to be empathetic with patients with auditory hallucination, so it was recommended that: the psychiatric simulation program that was applied in this study to be implemented with students' nurses that enrolled in psychiatric nursing educational course at faculties of nursing. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Psychiatric simulation program; Empathy; Auditory hallucination | ||||
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