The empathy app
(World News Science)

November 15, 2019 - Do you want to become a more empathic communicator? There`s an app for that - well, not just yet, but it`s coming. Michelle Lobchuk [BN/92, MN/95, PhD/01], associate professor in the College of Nursing, believes everyone can become a more empathic communicator. That`s why she`s taking an exercise she uses in her lab to people`s smartphones - a convenient tool to practise empathy in the palm of one`s hand. `To understand another person`s needs is key in practising health care,` says Lobchuk, who has been a research scientist of the Canadian Cancer Society through an award from the National Cancer Institute of Canada and recently, a Research Manitoba Chair in caregiver...