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Purpose: is study aimed to elucidate the characteristics of conscious and unconscious empathy that psychiatric nurses experience through their patient–nurse relationships in daily nursing practice. Methods: Unstructured interviews were conducted with 30 psychiatric nurses who had ≥5 years of work experience. Nurses described relationships with patients that had deepened and le an impression on them. e data were analyzed within the framework of Benner’s interpretive phenomenology. Results: Analysis on empathetic experiences of psychiatric nurses within their patient–nurse relationships interpreted 4 themes. e rst 2 themes, concern about their relationship with patients and instinctual drive for understanding the patients and mutual e ect between personality characteristics and life histories of patients and nurses, demonstrate nurses’ commitment and desire to relieve patients’ pain and negative feelings. e second 2 themes, feeling of a genuine connection with patients as con rmed through therapeutic e ect and a lifelong bond surpassing time and space, demonstrate mutual understanding, sharing of joyous, tender, and unexpected moments, and feelings of security and satisfaction between nurses and patients. Conclusion: ese ndings suggest that empathy experienced by psychiatric nurses through the patient–nurse relationship is a phenomenon that cannot be explained by only one particular scenario of nursing care, and is rather an experience acquired through the association between everyday nursing care and the time that nurses and patients are living in.

Empathy Experienced by Psychiatric Nurses through the Patient–Nurse Relationship