Assessment of Emotional Intelligence among Nurses Working with Patients with Alzheimer Disease.

Eldin Abd Ellatif Ali, Bahaa; Abou Bakr, Omayma; Mourad, Ghada

doi:10.21608/ejhc.2023.424781

Assessment of Emotional Intelligence among Nurses Working with Patients with Alzheimer Disease.

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ (1) Master degree in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Ain Shams University, Egypt

² Professor of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Ain Shams University, Egypt

³ Professor of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Ain Shams University, Egypt.

10.21608/ejhc.2023.424781

Abstract

Background: Nurses are the corner stone of the health care systems and their work is associated with great pressure, and nurses are often overwhelmed. Emotional intelligence and its significance to nursing have been increasingly emphasized throughout the last few years. Emotional intelligence is composed of a deposit of interrelated skills involving a capability to appraise one’s own emotions, and those of others, utilization & regulation of own emotions and social skills. Research Design: a descriptive design was used. The aim of this study was to assess of emotional intelligence among nurses working with Alzheimer patients. Setting The study was conducted at geriatric units of Ain Shams Hospitals and geriatric department of Abassia Hospital affiliated to Ain Shams University. Sampling: It was convenience sampling, a total number of (70) of nursing staff who are working in the mentioned setting. Tools; one tool was used for data collection, a Self-Administered Questionnaire including four parts; part one: socio demographic characteristics nurses, Part two: The Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS) to assess emotional intelligence in managing workplace. Results: the current study revealed that more than half of nurses have low level of total of emotional intelligence, and one of third of them have moderate level of emotional intelligence However minority of them have high level of emotional intelligence. Conclusion: The result of the current study concluded that more than half of the nurses in this study have low levels of emotional intelligence. and the highest mean of emotional intelligence domain among nurses was social skills domain, Self-awareness, empathy, managing emotions and the low mean was self-motivation Recommendations: The study recommended that hospital should provide continuous Inservice training education and awareness program for nursing staff to enhance their skills regarding emotional intelligence.

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