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Background: Nursing is a profession requiring prolonged training and a formal qualification. Therefore, nurse interns are expected to display competent and skillful behaviors in alignment with their profession. Aim: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between psychological empowerment, emotional intelligence and professional behavior among nurse interns. Material and methods: A comparative correlation research design was utilized with a sample of 200 nurse interns affiliated to Port-Said University and Mansoura University during the academic year 2014/2015. Data was collected from February to April 2015. Tools of data collection: Personal and job characteristics of the participants, psychological empowerment scale, emotional intelligence questionnaire and nursing students professional behaviors scale (NSPBS). Results: The study findings revealed that the majority of the nurse interns in both faculties had high psychological empowerment level (85%), whereas 93.3% of them in Port-Said were highly empowered compared to 78.4% in El-Mansoura with a statistically significant difference. 69.0% of nurse interns have an acceptable level of emotional intelligence, most of them (76.6%) from El Mansoura. 86.5% of nurse interns in Port-Said reflected a high level of professional behavior, while less than two thirds of nurse interns in El Mansoura behaved professionally. The significant positive relation was found between the psychological empowerment, emotional intelligence and professional behavior in both settings. Conclusion: The study concluded that professional behavior is related to emotional intelligence and psychological empowerment. Nurse interns need to push forward from acceptable level of emotional intelligence to a high level to be more effective and enhance their professional behavior and performance.

Psychological Empowerment, Emotional Intelligence and Professional Behavior among Nurse Interns