Introduction

Purpose

Background

Teaching Strategy of EI Introduction

Evaluation of Student Experience

Summary

Future Impact on Nursing

References

Abstract

Faculty and nurse administrators have a duty to provide future nurses both educational development and the professional expectations of nurses in health care settings to sustain the quality of care outcomes for members of the community. The purpose of this collaborative project between 2 schools of nursing was to provide emotional intelligence education to prelicensure nursing students while cultivating relationships with local community partners.

Introduction

Developing professionalism and collaboration skills through education is an expectation of health professionals and their students. Faculty and clinical preceptors channel this expectation through direct instruction, modeling, coaching, and facilitating interactions in health care environments. Nursing is a challenging profession with most schools of nursing requiring the development of professionalism in their graduates as an accreditation standard (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2017). This is in addition to nurses being able to function optimally toward therapeutic relationships practice (Maxwell, 2017) and learning a broad range of skills, which include the ability to operate technologically advanced medical equipment, work in a multidisciplinary team, and adapt to the constantly changing health care environment (Ranjbar, 2015). According to Delunas and Rouse (2014), improved communication and collaboration are the two most important outcomes of interprofessional development.