Emotional intelligence in Nurses

Emotional intelligence (EI) has been found to impact nurses personally and professionally. There are benefits to high emotional intelligence, including improved patient satisfaction and experience, an enhanced patient-nurse relationship, better teamwork and collaboration, and reduced stress and burnout among nurses.

The focus of this activity is to enable you to self-assess your emotional intelligence, identify your strengths and areas for improvement, and explore potential strategies to enhance your emotional intelligence in nursing. Self-awareness of EI and developing strategies to improve EI will support your professional growth and enhance your nursing practice.

By completing this activity, you will gain insights into your emotional intelligence and develop a plan to strengthen your abilities, ultimately improving your nursing practice.

Directions
For the first part of this activity, you will complete an informal emotional intelligence test. You can complete the emotional intelligence test linked in the Supporting Materials section, or you may complete an emotional intelligence test of your choice. Completing an emotional intelligence test will help you evaluate your emotional intelligence. Complete your selected assessment tool honestly and thoughtfully. Make sure to allocate sufficient time for this, as it is crucial for accurate self-evaluation. Once you have completed the assessment, review the results. Consider combining information from this assessment with information from other module resources and your own perception of your EI strengths to complete this activity. Then, write a summary of your emotional intelligence scores. An APA-style template can be found in the RN-BSN Library Guide linked in the Start Here section of the course. Use at least two scholarly, current (within the last five years) references to support your work.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Areas: Describe areas of personal excellence and areas that are growth opportunities.
Biases: Describe how biases may impact emotional intelligence.
Nursing Practice: Reflect on how your nursing practice may be impacted by your emotional intelligence findings.
Strategies: Identify strategies you can implement to enhance your emotional intelligence.
What to Submit
Submit your completed self-assessment. Your submission should be a 1- to 2-page Word document with separate title and reference pages that are not part of the page count. Follow APA style standards for formatting and citing your sources.

Supporting Materials
The following resource supports your work on this assignment:

Website: Emotional Intelligence Test
This website provides an informal emotional intelligence test you can use for this activity. Note that this test has 20 items. It should take you approximately five minutes to complete. It does not ask for your name or email address. After completing the test, you will see the results in graph form, along with a short paragraph about your results. The results put you in a broad range for EI; there is not a specific score.

Module Four Activity Rubric
Criteria Exceeds Expectations (100%) Meets Expectations (85%) Partially Meets Expectations (55%) Does Not Meet Expectations (0%) Value
Areas Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Describes areas of personal excellence and areas that are growth opportunities Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions Does not attempt criterion 10
Biases Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Describes how biases may impact emotional intelligence Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions Does not attempt criterion 25
Nursing Practice Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Reflects on how nursing practice may be impacted by emotional intelligence findings Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions Does not attempt criterion 25
Strategies Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Identifies strategies to implement to enhance emotional intelligence Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions Does not attempt criterion 25
Clear Communication Exceeds expectations with an intentional use of language that promotes a thorough understanding Consistently and effectively communicates in an organized way to a specific audience Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but communication is inconsistent or ineffective in a way that negatively impacts understanding Shows no evidence of consistent, effective, or organized communication 5
Scholarly Sources Incorporates more than two scholarly, current (within the last five years) sources, or use of sources is exceptionally insightful Incorporates two scholarly, current (within the last five years) sources that support claims Incorporates fewer than two scholarly, current (within the last five years) sources, or not all sources support claims Does not incorporate sources 5
APA Style Formats in-text citations and reference list according to APA style with no errors Formats in-text citations and reference list according to APA style with fewer than five errors Formats in-text citations and reference list according to APA style with five or more errors Does not format in-text citations and reference list according to APA style 5
Total: 100%