Nursing leadership based
on emotional intelligence is potential to improve nurse’s caring behavior in
Indonesia. The purpose of this research was to find out the effectiveness of
nursing leadership based on emotional
intelligence of the head nurse and its effect to the caring behavior of the
associate nurses. The study occupied quasi experimental design with control
group time series in two of General Hospital with equal management system in
Pekalongan Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. The nurses of hospital A declared that they were
ready to have training while hospital B nurses were not thus they were treated
as the control group. Proportional random sampling technique was used for the
in-patients department nurses of both hospitals with 44 participants from each.
The statistical analysis used general linear model of repeated ANOVA to find
out the difference of caring behavior on the intervention group and the control
group and to gain the difference caring behavior on each measurement as well as
to know
the effect of their age and length of working on associate nurse’s caring
behavior. The result of this study showed the score of the associate nurse’s
caring behavior on intervention group was higher than the control group with
the P value = 0.020. The increase of
the score of associate nurse’s caring behavior on intervention group was
significant with the mean before and after the intervention were 135.5 and
142.1 respectively, with the P value = 0.003. There was
significant effects of the
nursing leadership based on the emotional intelligent with the associate
nurse’s caring behavior. The nursing leadership based on emotional intelligent
was effective to improve associate nurse’s caring behavior hence it is
recommended to give the training for the implementation.
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