Nursing

The article highlights the importance of emotional intelligence (EI) in nursing leadership. Topics discussed include the potential for an emotionally intelligent leader to stimulate and encourage innovative behaviors among team members, role of EI in transformational and authentic leadership theories, and behavioral indicators of leaders with self-regulation such as passion, thoughtfulness and determination in making improvements and accepting change.

The article explains the importance of skillful negotiation as an aspect of emotional intelligence in health care leadership. Topics discussed include the role of effective communication with patients in quality healthcare, significance of negotiation skills to conflict management which entails understanding and engaging with people more successfully, and benefit of mindful negotiation skills to clients, workplaces and health care professionals.

The article discusses the need of nurses to evaluate how they listen in the clinical practice. Topics include the research project conducted by Sean Botha on the art of listening which considered the work of composer John Cage, the aspects of clinical practice that should be considered to improve listening, such as eating healthy food, and using sounds to one's advantage, and the need of the healthy industry for assistance with improving listening practice in the clinical setting.