Empatía del Personal de Enfermería en pacientes que afrontan dolor Postquirúrgico

Abstract

Objective: Describe the level of empathy of nursing staff towards patients experiencing post-surgical pain in 3 hospital units in the city of Guayaquil. Methodology: Quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional research carried out in 46 professional nurses belonging to 3 3rd level hospital units in the city of Guayaquil, through the application of the Jefferson Medical Empathy Scale (generalized version), in Spanish. Main results: The level of empathy of the participating nurses was 93.63. The minimum obtained from the sum of the scores per participant was 53 (1) and the maximum was 120 (5), 6 records had to be added up to 70. The Jefferson Scale factor with the highest score, with an average of 6 was Taking the patient's perspective, while caring with compassion was 3.59, and finally, Putting yourself in the patient's shoes was 3.83. Conclusion: Although it is not a low value, it does call for reflection on what may be happening in the post-surgical areas in terms of nurses' empathy towards patients' pain. It is recommended to integrate empathy as a transversal axis of their contents into the curricular projects of nursing programs in Ecuador.