Objective: To establish and evaluate a nurse internship for new graduate nurses at a medical center using Daniel Goleman's concepts of emotional intelligence.
Design: This is a non-experimental, descriptive design.
Population, Sample, Setting, Year: The population is a convenience sample of new graduates from nursing schools in the southeastern United States and experienced registered nurses serving as preceptors. The setting is an academic healthscience center in the southeastern United States. This study was begun in the summer of 2002.
Intervention and Outcome Variables: The intervention used the concept of emotional intelligence and the nurse internship model to allow new nurse graduates to have more specific clinical experiences. The outcome variables look at recruitment, retention, life long learning, and job satisfaction.
Methods: To enhance new nurse priority setting, critical decision making, and organizing care for multiple clients,a three month clinical internship was designed. This internship started with an innovative inservice using tenets of emotional intelligence. A Likert-type scale questionnarie was developed and administered to the new nurses and their preceptors.
Findings: The data are in the analytical phase and will be ready in early 2003.
Conclusions: The data are in the analytical phase and conclusions will be drawn in early 2003.
Implications: Although the implications are not yet known, potential implications include early and effective recruitment and retention of nurses to be effective patient care providers and leaders. The implications have relevance to hospital and nursing education.
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