"A Study to Assess the Emotional Intelligence Among Nursing Students at Era's College of Nursing, Lucknow"

Abstract: Emotional intelligence in the simplest word refers to the ability to recognize and regulate emotions in ourselves and others to make effective decisions. Emotional intelligence may be a relatively new term not more than years ago but  the roots of the emotional intelligence can be found in the bhagwad geeta around 5000 years ago where krishnas sthithapragnya ( most stable person ) is very close to mayer and saloveys emotionally intelligent person and also the work of person and also the work of plato 2000 years ago where he stated “ All learning has an emotional base .Since then researchers scientist, educator , and philosophers have worked to prove or disapprove the importance of feelings and emotions in day to day life.

Objective :The study aimed to assess the emotional intelligence level among GNM 3rd year nursing students.

Material and Methods :In the present study, the non-experimental research approach with descriptive research design was used. 70 third year nursing students (GNM) were selected through the non probability convenience Sampling technique from Era College of nursing, Lucknow. Emotional intelligence assesses using Emotional Intelligence questionnaire and demographic details were obtained using baseline data.

 Result: The findings of the present study shows  the Mean emotional intelligence level which includes different domains (45% students have self-awareness, 21.25% students  were having managing emotions, 42.5% students were having motivating behaviour,  41.25 students were having  empathy and 51.25% students having social skill).

Conclusion: The study shows that each student had different kind of emotional intelligence level.