Background: Emotional intelligence is a social skill that controls stress and influences nurse's ability to cope with the demands and environmental pressures. It can enhance professional skills in health care providers. Aim: Assess the relation between emotional intelligence and coping strategies with occupational stress among nurses. Design: A descriptive correlational research design was used in this study. Setting: The study was conducted in all Critical Care Units at Benha University Hospital. Subjects: Convenient sample consisting of ( 224) nurses with at least one year of experience at time of study. Tools of data collection: Two tools were used: I) Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire. II) The Coping and Adaptation Processing Scale. Results: Majority (92.9%) of studied nurses had high level of emotional intelligence and more than half (58%) of nurses had high level of coping strategies with occupational stress. Conclusion: There was statistically significant positive correlation between total level of emotional intelligence and total of coping strategies level with occupational stress. Recommendation: Conducting in service training and education programs as needed for nurses periodically to increase their emotional intelligence abilities and urgently use coping strategies to manage occupational stress.
Background: Ethical leadership has meaningful influence on the attitudes and ethical conduct of nurses and increased sense of perceived organizational support from hospital and decreased engagement in deviant workplace behaviors. Aim of study: Was to assess ethical leadership, deviant workplace behaviors and itʼs relation to perceived organizational support among nurses. Design: A descriptive correlational research design was utilized. Setting: The study was conducted in Critical Care Units at Benha University Hospitals. Sample: Convenient sample of all available nurses (230) nurses with at least three years of experience was included in study. Tools: Three tools were used for data collection. I: Ethical leadership scale, II: Deviant workplace behaviors scale and III: Perceived organizational support questionnaire. Results: More than half (52.6) of nurses had moderate ethical leadership perception level, the majority of nurses (89.6%) had negative prevalence of deviant workplace behaviors perception level and more than half (55.7%) of nurse were had moderate perceived organizational support level. Conclusion: There was a negative statistically significant correlation between ethical leadership perception level and deviant workplace behaviors perception level and between deviant workplace behaviors perception level and perceived organizational support level. Additionally, there was a positive statistically significant correlation between ethical leadership perception level and perceived organizational support level. Recommendation: Put hospital management system for rewarding and supporting nurses who behave ethically and serving as ethical role models by providing different kinds of bonuses and incentives, create hospital management strategies that promote supportive work environment and reduce workplace deviance behaviors such as rewards, flexible work schedules, fair pay and benefits, safe working conditions, and training. Provides hospital management promotion and fairness system through distributing resources for nurses equally.
Successful internship program is fundamental to providing education and training to help the nurse interns make transition from novice to advanced beginner who can demonstrate satisfactory performance and deal with actual and emergency situations before they assume the professional nurses' roles which will increase their satisfaction. Also, emergency care patients benefit from the attention of nurse interns with a high competence level. Aim of the study: Enhancing nurse interns` competencies at emergency units and its effect on their satisfaction. Design: A quasi experimental design was used in this study.
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