López-Pérez Belén, Ambrona Tamara, Hanoch Yaniv
School of Psychology, Plymouth University, UK.
Universidad de Burgos, Spain.
Nurse Educ Pract. 2016 Jul;19:7-11. doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2016.03.009. Epub 2016 Apr 4.
Nurses are playing a vital role in caring for patients. However, this can be very emotionally taxing. In two studies, professional nurses and nursing students from two different countries (Spain and United States) were compared on different measures-objective and self-perspective-taking, personal distress, and emotional impact-when facing different types of patients who suffered from the same illness: One terminally ill and one non-terminal. Results showed that the type of patient (terminal vs. non-terminal) only affected significantly the nursing students, who reported a higher self-perspective taking, personal distress, and emotional impact when the patient was terminal. Nursing students, compared to professional ones, seem to be more vulnerable to the type of patient they care for as they exhibited higher levels of negative emotional experience when the patient described was terminal. The significant implications are discussed.
护士在照顾患者方面发挥着至关重要的作用。然而，这在情感上可能会非常耗费精力。在两项研究中，对来自两个不同国家（西班牙和美国）的专业护士和护理专业学生在面对患有相同疾病的不同类型患者时的不同指标进行了比较——客观和自我视角采择、个人困扰以及情感影响：一名绝症患者和一名非绝症患者。结果表明，患者类型（绝症患者与非绝症患者）仅对护理专业学生有显著影响，当患者为绝症患者时，他们报告的自我视角采择、个人困扰和情感影响更高。与专业护士相比，护理专业学生似乎更容易受到他们所照顾患者类型的影响，因为当所描述的患者为绝症患者时，他们表现出更高水平的负面情绪体验。文中讨论了这些显著影响。
