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The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of multi interventional therapy on emotional intelligence and clinical performance skill of nursing students.The objectives of the study are assess the emotional intelligence and clinical performance skill of nursing students, evaluate the effect of multi interventional therapy on emotional intelligence and clinical performance skill of nursing students, Find the association between emotional intelligence and personal variables. The present study was based on general system theory. In this Quasi-Experimental research approach one group pre-test post-test design was used. The sample includes 30 nursing students who are studying second year Bsc nursing in thalassery, college of nursing . The tools used to collect the data include self reporting technique to assess the personal variables and,emotional intelligence assessment rating scale, Clinical performance assessment rating scale.Content validity of tools were established with the help of six experts and reliability established by split half method and karl pearson correlation coefficient found to be reliability of the test is 0 .74 and 0.86.A pilot study was conducted and tools were found to be clear, unambiguous and the data were amenable for statistical analysis. The main study was conducted in the month of March at selected college of nursing , Thalassery. The data collected were tabulated and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings revealed there is a significant change in the level of emotional intelligence after multi intervention therapy and there is no significant association between emotional intelligence and personal variables except in case of religion, type of family,no of siblings ,yoga and relaxation techinique.The findings of the study concluded that there is significant improvement emotional intelligence after multi intervention therapy.Findings of the study have implications in nursing practice, education, administration and research. The study emphasizes the importance of emotional intelligence in nursing field .