Empathizing Characteristics

Discussion
This study compared the empathizing and systemizing characteristics of undergraduate students enrolled in a nursing program with the same characteristics of undergraduate students in other disciplines. The results showed the following:
Female nursing students are generally more empathetic than their male peers,
Male nursing students generally have stronger systemizing characteristics than their female peers.
Also, both male and female students who are attracted to nursing as a career are more empathetic than the general population of students.
The findings, based on class standing, suggest that the further nursing students progress in the continuum of the nursing curriculum, their systemizing characteristics increase along
Patient-centered care is becoming the foundation for reaching goals such as reach better outcomes with lower costs.
Patients are the center of nursing care, and patients look to nurses to receive empathetic and humanistic nursing care, therefore it is important for nursing students to understand the link between empathy and better patient outcomes. This research links how empathy is a fundamental, underlying trait that attracts individuals to nursing.
As many nurses find themselves in stressful situations that lead to high empathetic distress once they begin professional practice, quantification of the empathizing characteristics of nurses is important. Our study suggests ways that nurse educators may use measures of students' empathizing characteristics as sources of insight in relation to the evaluation of students who are most likely to succeed and find satisfaction in their professional nursing
Also, both male and female students who are attracted to nursing as a career are more empathetic than the general population of students.

The findings, based on class standing, suggest that the further nursing students progress in the continuum of the nursing curriculum, their systemizing characteristics increase along with a slight increase in empathizing characteristics.

The findings of this research are especially significant in light of the fact that nursing student - patient interactions reflect a patient-centered care approach emphasizing empathy as a necessary foundation tool.

Patients are the center of nursing care, therefore it is important for nursing students to understand the link between empathy and better patient outcomes.

This research links how empathy is a fundamental, underlying trait that attracts individuals to nursing.

Many nurses find themselves in stressful situations leading to high empathetic distress once they begin professional practice. Our study suggests ways that nurse educators may use measures of students' empathizing characteristics as insight in relation to the evaluation of students who are most likely to succeed in finding satisfaction as a professional