REVIEW ARTICLE
Nurse Managers’ Emotional Intelligence and Effective Leadership: A Review of the Current Evidence
Panagiotis E Prezerakos*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2018Volume: 12
First Page: 86
Last Page: 92
Publisher ID: TONURSJ-12-86
DOI: 10.2174/1874434601812010086
Article History:
Received Date: 26/1/2018Revision Received Date: 21/3/2018
Acceptance Date: 7/5/2018
Electronic publication date: 31/05/2018
Collection year: 2018
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background:
Emotional Intelligence has made a significant contribution to effective leadership, becoming one of the key characteristics of leaders.
Objective: The aim of the present study was to review qualitative and quantitative studies concerning Emotional Intelligence of nurse leaders and the evidence-based composition of their results.
Method:
A search was performed in the electronic databases (Pubmed, Scopus and CINAHL) for articles, which were published in the period 2000-2017 in English or Greek. Eleven studies met the inclusion criteria, of which 10 were quantitative and one was qualitative.
Results:
The results suggested that Emotional Intelligence is a useful tool for nurse leaders and contributes decisively to the achievement of effective management in healthcare.
Conclusion:
It is necessary for nurses to improve their social and emotional skills because of the particular nature of the nursing profession, which places the healthy or weak person at its center.
