The relationship between nurses' performance during endotracheal suctioning with their emotional intelligence in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU)
Advances in Nursing & Midwifery,
Vol. 27 No. 1 (2018),
3 April 2018
,
Page 32-39
Abstract
Abstract:
Background and Aim:
Individual skills and psychological characteristics of nurses may affect their efficiency and working
quality. In this study, the relationship between emotional intelligence and nurses’ performance
during endotracheal suctioning in neonatal intensive care units was assessed.
Materials and methods:
This was a correlation-descriptive study which was conducted on 67 nurses working in neonatal
intensive care units of Tehran Medical Sciences university hospitals in 2016. The data
was collected with a check-list and Bradberry-Greaves emotional intelligence questionnaire.
Convenience sampling method was used and all nurses who had inclusion criteria were included.
Suction performance checklist. The mean and SD scores of performance and emotional intelligence
were 17.12+2.32 and 80.22+13.04 respectively. Pearson correlation did not show significant
relationship between two variables (9=0.551, r=0.074). The Performance scores were related with
work experience of nurses (p<0.05). The emotional intelligence and work history were not
correlated (p>0.05).
Conclusion:
The results of current study showed no significant relationship between performance and emotional
intelligence in a specific procedure of nurses. Since other studies showed positive relationship
between emotional intelligence and performance, we recommend more studies with different
questionnaires and more samples in their studies.
Keywords:
Emotional intelligence; Performance at Work; Suctioning
- Emotional intelligence
- Performance at Work
- Suctioning
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