Education, Emotions and Health: Emotional Education in Nursing

Emotional Education is more and more present every day in schools and universities. Medicine and Nursing students are maybe the most required to have emotional skills both in the university field and later on in the professional field. The aim of our study was to work with Nursing students carrying out practical exercises to train and provide the development of socioemotional skills. At a methodological level, an intervention study with pre-post evaluation was carried out. It was conducted in four practical workshops where they learnt different techniques for the development of the above mentioned socioemotional skills. TMMS-24 was applied to 108 first year Nursing students of Universidad Católica of Murcia. Results showed a statistically significant improvement on Emotional Attention after the intervention. As a conclusion we highlight the positive results obtained after the practical workshops, both shown by final data as per expressed by the students. We find necessary an ongoing Emotional Education which takes account of intercultural diversity to improve the results even more.