The overall impact of emotional intelligence on nursing students and nursing

Abstract

Healthcare employers often criticize the lack of emotional competency and critical thinking skills demonstrated by newly licensed nurses. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether emotional intelligence (EI) training for nurses improves critical thinking and emotional competence enough to justify including EI in nursing curricula. A meta-analysis was conducted inclusive of EI related nursing abilities and traits such as leadership, health, reflection, ethical behavior, nursing student performance, and job retention/satisfaction. Studies of EI constructs, test instruments, and contrary viewpoints were also examined. The analysis included 395 EI studies of approximately 65,300 participants. All the studies reported a positive correlation with EI ranging from weak to strong with a moderate cumulative effect size of r = 0.3022 across all studies. This study may contribute to positive social change by reducing employers time and cost for training newly licensed nurses, thereby decreasing the overall cost of health care to the public.

Emotional Intelligence among Saudi Nursing Students and Its Relationship to Their Critical Thinking Disposition at College of Nursing- Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

“…Lack of emotional competency and critical thinking skills demonstrated by new nurses frequently disapproved by Healthcare employers [21]. Yet, many educators incessantly fight to involve students in these activities and students occasionally use critical thinking skills to solve problems [22].…”

“…For examples, some studies focused on measuring critical thinking among nursing students [2,3,5,17]. Another study measured emotional intelligence among nursing students [21]. Assumed that few studies handle the relationship between emotional intelligence and critical thinking, this study intends to fill the gap specifically for nursing students in the Saudi Arabian culture.…”

Changes in the emotional intelligence of occupational therapy students during practice education: A longitudinal study

“…Emotional intelligence is well recognised as a realm of human cognitive capability, with emotional intelligence now included as a second-stratum factor of intelligence, similar in importance to fluid intelligence and visual processing (MacCann et al., 2014). A meta-analysis of 395 studies that all included healthcare professionals concluded that emotional intelligence is positively correlated with critical thinking skills and emotional competency (Michelangelo, 2015). Teams with higher emotional intelligence have been shown to have a positive effect on team cohesion and their ability to deal with conflicts (Brown et al., 2017).…”

Correlating Emotional Intelligence and Job Performance Among Jordanian Hospitals’ Registered Nurses

“…In 2014, a meta‐analysis including 395 research studies was conducted. This meta‐analysis concluded that, although limited by a wide variety of definitions for EI among the studies, there was evidence for moderate cumulative effect size of r = .3022 for the relationship between EI ability and important nurse traits that included leadership, health, reflection, ethical behavior, nursing student performance, and job retention/satisfaction (Michelangelo, ).…”