Efectividad de una intervención sobre inteligencia emocional en enfermeras especialistas en salud mental

Abstract

In recent years there has been an increase in the number of patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. In fact, it is the most prevalent personality disorder. The borderline personality disorder is a pervasive pattern of instability in inter-personal relationships, affection, and self-image with low impulse control. These features, combined with the low frustration tolerance, self-harm, thoughts of death, suicide attempts, affective instability, impulsivity, ambivalence, inappropriate anger, poor self-concept with feelings of inadequacy or inferiority, low self esteem, make this entity to disclose an high difficulty in handling. All this evokes strong countertransference reactions to therapists, which react avoidant and, in many cases, they create stress. It is in this situation where the therapeutic relationship is threatened. The development of a therapeutic re-lationship is essential to nursing and must be developed before one begins to participate in one operation with any patient. Therefore, to participate effectively, nurses must understand their own emotions and reactions to the patient diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. To be a good professional and basic working caregiver is the ability to manage one’s feelings and emotions in an adaptive and intelligent. This skill set is part of the concept of Emotional Intelligence. The project presented is a quasi-experimental study with Emotional Intelligence training program aimed at mental health nurses, who work with patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, in the areas of Hospitals Virgen del Rocío and Valme and to improve the therapeutic relationship with those patients. The main objective of the study is to analyze the effectiveness of the program to improve the therapeutic relationship with these patients, increasing emotional intelligence levels of nurses, reducing stress and increasing the same satisfaction of both nurses and patients.