Abstract

Introduction: Nurses' human traits and beliefs could help in better performance of their professional role. Care quality has been the most important priority of nursing whose promotion causes the patients satisfaction increase, efficiency increase and reduction of hospital costs. The present study was conducted for examining the relation between nurses' spiritual intelligence and nurses care quality in Estahban city. Study method: The study method used in this study is descriptive of correlation type and it was performed by accessible sampling method and participation of 80 nurses with bachelor and master's degree. 42- Question spiritual intelligence questionnaire of Badie et. al (2010) and Kioalpak nursing care quality (1975) was used that their reliability was confirmed by content method and their validity with Cronbach alpha method with coefficients 0.8 and 0.85 respectively. The relation between nurses' spiritual intelligence and nursing cares quality was examined by statistical test of Pearson correlation coefficient. Findings: There is a significant positive relation between spiritual intelligence and nursing cares quality (p=0.00, r = 0.502). There is a significant and positive relation between spiritual intelligence and communicational skills quality of nursing cares (p= 0.00, r = 0.398). There is a significant and positive relation between spiritual intelligence and mental and social quality of nursing cares (p= 0.000, r = 0.366). Conclusion: Spiritual intelligence in reinforcing beliefs and personality of nurses could help in improving the quality of patients care. Therefore, benefiting from higher spiritual intelligence of nurses in workplace could be effective in promoting better performance and implementing of role which by itself leads to promotion of patients' health.