ABSTRAK
Pengembangan kepemimpinan keperawatan berdasarkan kecerdasan emosionalmemungkinkan pemimpin memengaruhi orang lain dalam melakukan pekerjaannyayang sangat penting untuk meningkatkan kualitas keperawatan. Tujuan penelitian iniadalah terbangunnya kepemimpinan keperawatan berdasarkan kecerdasanemosional kepala ruang dan pengaruhnya terhadap perilaku caring perawatpelaksana. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan action research melalui tigatahapan penelitian yaitu: Tahap 1, identifikasi masalah-masalah pokok yang adadengan penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan fenomenologi. Tahap II,Pengembangan kepemimpinan keperawatan berdasarkan kecerdasan emosional dalamupaya meningkatkan perilaku caring perawat pelaksana. Tahap III, penelitianpengaruh penerapan program kepemimpinan keperawatan berdasarkan kecerdasanemosional kepala ruang terhadap perilaku caring perawat pelaksana dengan desainquasi experiment with control group desain. Metode sampling yang digunakan dalampenelitian tahap III yaitu proporsional random sampling. Hasil tahap I yangterdentifikasi 7 tema. Tahap II dihasilkan model kepemimpinan keperawatanberdasarkan kecerdasaan emosional, tahap III terdapat pengaruh yang bermaknapenerapan kepemimpinan keperawatan berdasarkan kecerdasan emosional terhadapperlaku caring perawat pelaksana (P=0,003). ada perbedaan perilaku caring perawatpelaksana kelompok intervensi dan kontrol (P= 0,20). Rekomendasi: perlunyapelatihan bagi kepala ruang untuk implementasi model kepemimpinan keperawatanberdasarkan kecerdasan emosional di rumah sakit

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ABSTRACT
Nursing leadership development based on emotional intelligence allows leaders toinfluence others to do the work that is essential to improving the quality of nursingThe purpose of the study was the establishment of the leadership of the ward nursebased on emotional intelligence that could improve nurses caring behavior. Thisresearch applied an action research approach through three stages of research,namely: the identification of the key issues using the qualitative research ,thedevelopment of leadership based on emotional intelligence of ward nurses in aneffort to improve nurses caring behavior and the study on the effect of the applyingthe leadership program based on the ward nurses emotional intellegence to ward thecaring behavior of the nurses as the quasi experiment design compaired to thecontrol group design. The sampling method used in the stage III study that isproportional random sampling. The first stage produced 7 theme. Stage II: produced amodel of leadership based on emotional intelligence in an effort to improve nursescaring behavior, Stage III: there is a significant effect of the application of thenursing leadership based on emotional intelligence of the nurses caring behavior (P=0,003). No diference in nurse caring behavior intervention and control group (P=0,200) Recomendations:(1). the need for training for ward nursing for theimplementation of the leadership model of nursing based on emotional intelligence (K3E) at the hospital.