Relationship between empathy trends and personal problem solving skills of personal opening and feedback levels of executive nurses

This research; descriptive, and relationship-seeking study was conducted in a screening model to examine the relationship between empathic tendencies and interpersonal problem solving skills in the levels of personal opening and feedback in executive nurses.The research was carried out with administrative nurses working in the hospitals of state universities in the province of Istanbul between September 2015 and November 2016. Data were gathered with Sociodemographic Information Form, Sociodemographic Information Form, Johari Window Test, Empathic Tendency Scale (EQS), and Interpersonal Problem Solving Inventory (CPQE), introducing themselves to the nurses by the researcher. Descriptive statistical methods (mean, standard deviation, frequency ), Mann Whitney U test, Kruskal Wallis test, Mann Whitney U post hoc test, Spearman Rho Correlation analysis. Significance was evaluated at p <0.05. The study period of the nurses participating in the study ranged from 3.5 to 40 years and the average duration of the administrators was 9.41 ± 7.96. It was observed that the probable adverse attitudes of the manager nurses to associate degree graduates were significantly higher than those of undergraduate graduates.Nurses working 40 hours or more per week were found to have higher self-esteem than 40-hour employees per week. He found that the empathetic tendency of the nurses who were appointed to the manager position by their own will was higher than those assigned by appointment. It was determined that the personal opening levels of the manager nurses were significantly correlated with the probing negative approach and the self insecurity and the empathic tendency at the levels of 20.8% and 24.7% in the negative direction. It was found that the levels of feedback of manager nurses were significantly correlated with constructive problem solving and persistent persistence and empathic tendency by 22.3% and 23.3% in the positive direction. 3 As a result of the research, it was determined that the level of personal and feedback of the manager nurses is low, the empathic tendencies are moderate, the problem solving is successful, and the level of coping with the difficulties is high. Key Words: Personal development, empathy, problem solving, johari