Background: Emotionally intelligent managers are able to use, understand and manage their feelings in a way that benefits themselves and others. Aim: The main aim of this integrative review is to assess the level of emotional intelligence among nurse managers within current literature and previous studies. Materials and Methods: An integrative review was conducted; a search was performed in the electronic databases (ISI, SCOPUS, Ovid, Proquest, Google Scholar, PubMed, and SID) for articles, which were published in the period 2002-2020 in English. Nine studies met the inclusion criteria. Results: Of 840 articles, and after exclusion criteria; Nine articles only were met the inclusion criteria. Of these eight studies, the majority found an average level of emotional intelligence among nurse managers and nurses. Conclusion: It is evident that the nurses are able to experience the ability to identify and experience a wide range of emotions in everyday practice. Despite the satisfactory level of emotional intelligence among nurses, they have to improve their skills to achieve maximum level of these skills of emotional intelligence.
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