The relationship between nurses' performance during endotracheal suctioning with their emotional intelligence in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU)
نویسندگان
1 Associate Professor, Pediatric Department, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Mental Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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4 MSc in Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
doi
10.22037/anm.v27i1.15769چکیده
Abstract:Background and Aim:Individual skills and psychological characteristics of nurses may affect their efficiency and workingquality. In this study, the relationship between emotional intelligence and nurses’ performanceduring 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 neonatalintensive care units of Tehran Medical Sciences university hospitals in 2016. The datawas 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 intelligencewere 17.12+2.32 and 80.22+13.04 respectively. Pearson correlation did not show significantrelationship between two variables (9=0.551, r=0.074). The Performance scores were related withwork experience of nurses (p<0.05). The emotional intelligence and work history were notcorrelated (p>0.05).Conclusion:The results of current study showed no significant relationship between performance and emotionalintelligence in a specific procedure of nurses. Since other studies showed positive relationshipbetween emotional intelligence and performance, we recommend more studies with differentquestionnaires and more samples in their studies.Keywords:Emotional intelligence; Performance at Work; Suctioning
