Beyond empathy training for practitioners : Cultivating empathic healthcare systems and leadership

© 2024 The Authors. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd..

Empathic care benefits patients and practitioners, and empathy training for practitioners can enhance empathy. However, practitioners do not operate in a vacuum. For empathy to thrive, healthcare consultations must be situated in a nurturing milieu, guided by empathic, compassionate leaders. Empathy will be suppressed, or even reversed if practitioners are burned out and working in an unpleasant, under-resourced environment with increasingly poorly served and dissatisfied patients. Efforts to enhance empathy must therefore go beyond training practitioners to address system-level factors that foster empathy. These include patient education, cultivating empathic leadership, customer service training for reception staff, valuing cleaning and all ancillary staff, creating healing spaces, and using appropriate, efficiency saving technology to reduce the administrative burden on healthcare practitioners. We divide these elements into environmental factors, organisational factors, job factors, and individual characteristics.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Journal of evaluation in clinical practice - (2024) vom: 04. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Howick, Jeremy [VerfasserIn]
de Zulueta, Paquita [VerfasserIn]
Gray, Muir [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Burnout
Empathy
Hospital design
Journal Article
Patient education
Review
Value-based healthcare
Workload

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Date Revised 04.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status Publisher

doi:

10.1111/jep.13970

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369264924