The Effect of Nurse Empathy in the Assessment Process and Nursing Actions

Background: Empathy in nursing care is shown by the existence of cognitive, affective and psychomotor empathy. The cognitive component is the ability of health workers to understand patients from a patient perspective. Second, the emotional component is the ability to feel the patient's anxiety and anxiety. And third, the clinical action component is the ability to take part as a patient for the actions taken. This study describes in detail cognitive, affective and psychomotor empathy in the stages of the assessment process and nursing actions.

Methods: Systematic literature review, following database: Google search, NCBI, ResearchGate, PubMed, between 2010- 2022. Qualitative assessment was applied using Giacomini and Cook's criteria.

Results: It was found that there were 39 articles discussing the effect of empathy on the process of improving and facilitating nursing assessments and actions that lead to patient recovery.

Conclusions: An empathetic approach will facilitate the assessment process and nursing actions.