Nurses' and nursing assistants' emotional skills: A major determinant of motivation for patient education.
Sophie LelorainAdeline BacheletVirginie GoncalvesErica WortelMarine BillesMélanie SeillierNicole BertinMaryline BourgoinPublished in: Journal of advanced nursing (2019)
The study addressed nurses' and nursing assistants' motivation for patient education. Their emotional skills were directly and indirectly - via a higher sense of patient-education-related competence - associated with higher motivation. Training for professionals should therefore develop their emotional skills.