Emotional Intelligence for the Interdisciplinary Team (FR473)

High functioning, resilient hospice and palliative care teams do not happen by chance. To build resilience, teams need to be educated, developed, and guided over time by a consistent vision and process. Defined as the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions, emotional intelligence is supported by a growing body of evidence as a reliable path to increased resilience. The four domains of emotional intelligence (self-awareness, self-management, social-awareness, and relationship management) readily apply to hospice and palliative care team functioning and patient care delivery.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Source Type: research