Pavlyuk T. Empathic factors of nurses' professional adaptation

The thesis focuses on empathic factors of nurses' professional adaptation during all stages of their professional development. It has been revealed that empathy in context of nurse's communicative-deontological competence can be treated as functionally actual personal trait. The author argues that empathy as a regulator of professional adaptation is observed in the nurse's empathic attitude through requirements of professional activity by means of communicative-deontological skills. Empirical research of the empathic attitude of adaptable and non-adaptable nurses during all stages of their professional development allows drawing its relation to the logic of forming communicative-deontological skills. Empathic attitude of adaptable nurses has been proved to determine gradual forming of characteristics of psychological comforts whereas empathic attitude of non-adaptable nurses causes nervous and psychic tensions, emotional burning out/