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Abstract
Background: Emotional Intelligence provides an essential assistance and become one of necessary head nurses’ competencies. High emotional intelligence head nurses able to understand one’s own and other people’s emotions. The head nurses use of control over emotions benefit staff nurse by creating a convenient and healthy environment for their work engagement. Aim: Assess head nurses’ emotional intelligence contribution to staff nurses’ work engagement. Subjects and Method: Design: A descriptive correlation research study design was used in this study. Setting: It was conducted in all departments at El-Menshawy General Hospital affiliated to the Ministry of Health and Population. Subject: Two groups of subjects’ All (n=60) head nurses, Stratified random sampling (n=400) of staff nurses Tools: two tools were used for collecting data Head nurses’ emotional intelligence assessment scale Staff nurses engagement questionnaire. Results: Head nurses 76% had high level of overall emotional intelligence. Head nurses 85%, 83%, 81.7% and 80% respectively had high level in emotional self-control, emotional management of others, emotional self-management and emotional awareness of others. Staff nurses 84.8% had high level of overall work engagement. Staff nurses range (75.5% - 77.3%) had high level of emotional physical, cognitive and behavioral engagement respectively. There was a statistically significant positive correlation between head nurses overall emotional intelligence and staff nurses overall work engagement. Conclusion: There was contribution of head nurses’ emotional intelligence to staff nurses’ work engagement. Recommendation: Periodical training programs needed for head nurses and staff nurses about emotional intelligence and work engagement. Involve emotional intelligence as items for competencies in performance appraisal of head nurses. Add emotional intelligence’s competencies and work engagement in undergraduate and postgraduate nursing educational programs.