A Study to Assess the Knowledge on Emotional Intelligence and Its Relation With Job Succession Among Staff Nurses in Selected Hospital, Odisha, India

Introduction: Emotional intelligence, or EI, is "a set of emotional and social skills that influence the way we perceive and express ourselves, develop and maintain social relationships, cope with challenges, and use emotional information in an effective and meaningful way." Emotional intelligence is one of the traits associated with success in life. By assisting staff members in developing their emotional intelligence, numerous problems in management, education, and health can be fixed. Aim: To explore the knowledge regarding emotional intelligence and its relation with job succession among staff nurses. Materials and Methods : A cross sectional descriptive study was carried out through survey method among 200 staff nurses working at IMS and SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar, India. Total enumerative sampling technique was adopted. The self-structured emotional intelligence questionnaire and job succession questionnaires were used to measure on staff nurses' emotional intelligence and level of job satisfaction. The obtained data were analysed by Descriptive statistics, and chi-square test were done to see the association with the knowledge and job succession with various demographic variables through SPSS 20 Version.. Results : It was observed that 51.5% of the staff nurses have high level of knowledge on emotional intelligence and 48.5% have average level of knowledge on emotional intelligence. In relation to job succession 53.5% of the staff nurses have high level of job succession and 93 46.5% have average level of job succession. Knowledge on emotional intelligence was found to have a strong positive correlation with job succession as the r value was 0.975. Conclusion: All the participant had high level of knowledge on emotional intelligence and job succession. Knowledge was found to have a strong positive correlation with job succession. Incorporating training in emotional intelligence into nursing education and in-service training is needed to improve job performance, leadership potential, and interpersonal skills. Clinical Trial Number- Not applicable