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Emotionally smart

Nursing StandardPublished 30 August 2006
Sally Gooch
Citations8
SJR quartileQ3
SJR score0.30

TL;DR

This article examines how caring for patients demonstrates that nurses value and respect them, and how nurses need emotional intelligence to achieve optimum care.

Abstract

In the fifth article in our Heart of Nursing series we examine how caring for patients demonstrates that nurses value and respect them. To achieve optimum care, nurses need emotional intelligence.

Keywords

PsychologyMedicineHealth Professions