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Why you should read this article: • To familiarise yourself with the various constructs and components of emotional intelligence (EI) • To understand how developing EI skills may assist nurses in managing work-related stress • To enhance your knowledge of teaching methods that could enhance nursing students' EI Emotional intelligence (EI) is considered essential to nursing practice, but it is unclear how best to support nursing students to develop EI skills. This article details a literature review that was undertaken to explore EI in preregistration nurse education and to identify effective methods for developing nursing students' EI skills. A total of 12 articles were included in the review, from which data were extracted, compared and categorised. Three main areas were identified regarding EI in preregistration nurse education: EI constructs, EI components and EI teaching methods. The review found that a range of EI constructs and components may be included in nurse education curricula, meaning that there is often inconsistency in the approaches used. Classroom teaching methods were primarily used, alongside online methods and experiential methods such as simulation-based learning. The findings of the review suggest there is a need for greater consistency in the EI constructs and components used in preregistration nurse education, as well as further research to determine which EI teaching methods are most effective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Twin brothers Wilf and Rob McSherry are both professors of nursing--but got there in different ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]