Emotional Intelligence in Health Care

Question: Describe about the Emotional Intelligence in Health Care? Answer: Initially, emotional intelligence seems like a contradiction in terms as it is observed that emotions mostly interfere with the intelligent behavior. According to the founding fathers, emotional intelligence find out emotion could be recognized as the loss of cerebral control (Faguy, 2012). On the other hand, emotion also plays a key role as a valuable guide to happiness and success. On the other hand, it is also stated that to lead a better life a person needs to maintain a balance between feelings and intellect. According to Faguy (2012), completely shutting off emotion from the life is dethatching someone from the reality. Therefore, it is also important to pay attention to emotion, understand them as well as use them wisely to lead better lives, both personally and professionally. There are several tools for assessing Emotional Intelligence, which may include Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i), The Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale (SEIS), Daniel Golemans Emotional Competency Index and the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT). From the successful use some tools it is found that measurement of Emotional Intelligence is not a very complicated task; however very important. From assessment, it is found that the claim of women being more "Emotional Intelligent" is not right. Every person has a unique Emotional Intelligent level. However, few common EI characteristics were found and noted in this article. The characteristics were important to identify the nature of an individual, that is if he or she is more social active or not, positive and negative approach to the relationships, etc. However, positive or negative, Measurement of Emotional Intelligence is proved as helpful to assess the emotional as well as intellectual characteristics of an individual, which in turn proved as important in the development of a better life style both professional and personal. Reference Faguy, K. (2012). Emotional intelligence in health care.Radiologic Technology,83(3), 237-253.