Empathy in Nursing Students that do the Non-Medical Internship in Three Universities in Lima, 2019

Abstract

Empathy is an attribute of importance between the nursing professional and the patient, where it influences the recovery of their health. Several studies carried out have shown worrying results where they reflect a great decrease in empathy during the formative academic years. The objective of the study is to determine empathy in nursing interns from three university institutions in Lima, 2019. The study is a quantitative approach, with a nonexperimental, prospective, descriptive and cross-sectional design. The application of the Jefferson Medical Empathic Scale instrument for students in Spanish version S is proposed, where the data was entered into a matrix in the Microsoft Excel 2013 program, then the IBM SPSS Statistics version 24.0 is subsequently analyzed obtaining the percentage of empathy of the internal, also take actions to improve these variables. 216 nursing interns from three universities in Lima participated. 51.4% are from Universidad Norbert Wiener, 89.4% (n = 193) were women, 56.4% (n = 123) are from the ninth cycle, 42.4% (n = 91) they study and work, 58 nursing interns from Universidad Norbert Wiener representing 52.3% have a medium level, 34 nursing interns from the Universidad de Ciencias y Humanidades, representing 30.6% have a medium level and finally 19 nursing interns from the Universidad Privada del Norte representing 17.1% have a medium level. Universidad Norbert Wiener obtained a higher score prevailing the medium level.