Emotional Intelligence and Reflective Practice in Nursing

Emotional Intelligence and reflective practice are integral components of building a therapeutic relationship in nursing

Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to perceive, control, and evaluate emotion. Reflective practice is exploring of one’s own experience and practices. This includes a person’s behaviour, thinking and all other related emotions. Therapeutic relationship can be defined as the care assistance and management given to clients according to the needs. According to the international council of nurses, “Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or well and in all settings. Nursing includes the promotion, prevention of illness, and the care for ill, disabled and dying people. Advocacy, promotion of a safe environment, research, participation in shaping health policy and in patient and health system management, and education are also key nursing roles”. Thus, emotional intelligence and reflective practice has different facts that contribute in building a therapeutic relationship in nursing.

The capacity to express and control one’s own emotion is crucial and so important understanding, interpreting, and responding to others emotion. In nursing, perceiving, reasoning, understanding and managing emotion is important in building therapeutic relationship. There are four components of emotional intelligence that is perceive emotions, utilize this emotional perception to undertake various activities, understand emotional differences and achieve emotions to attain goals. The nursing profession demands that the nursing, in the process of care, has to interact with the patients, the medical group and the health care workers contin...

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