Teaching With Entertainment Films: An Empathetic Focus

In an effort to bridge the gap in learning in the affective domain, nurse educators must understand and develop meaningful teaching strategies. Specific strategies designed to facilitate cognitive understanding of the affective response can be found in entertainment films. The findings of this study suggest that the use of entertainment films with guidance is effective in teaching empathetic responses. The continued study of the complex phenomenon in developing an understanding of the many variables that comprise not only the experience of empathy, but also the transference of the experience into helping interventions.