Emotional intelligence has been increasingly explores in the last twenty years, in the field of psychology, but also in many other areas. Emotional intelligence can be defined as self-management skills and collaboration with others, and consists of five key elements: self-consciousness, self-control, motivation, empathy, and social skills. Emotional intelligence among healthcare workers is a key component for dealing with numerous stressors at work, conflict resolution, more successful team work, especially for understanding and defining patient status. Emotional intelligence promotes personal growth that affects business satisfaction. The aim of this paper is to explore the notion of emotional intelligence and importance in healthcare and to determine whether there is a link between emotional intelligence and the degree of education of healthcare professionals in emergency medicine. Specific research aims are to establish the correlation between emotional intelligence with the age and sex of respondents and the existence of differences in emotional intelligence between outhospital and hospital emergency workers. The research was conducted in July and August 2017 at the Department of Emergency Medicine of the County of Brod-Posavina in substations of Vrpolje, Slavonski Brod, Lužani, Nova Gradiška and Okučani, and in the General Hospital "Dr. Josip Benčević "at the united emergency hospital admissions. In the study, 97 participants participated, and an emotional competence questionnaire (UEK-45) was used. Research results show that emotional intelligence does not affect the level of education of the respondents. There was no correlation between emotional intelligence with age of respondents, while women showed a higher degree of emotional intelligence. There was no difference in emotional intelligence between outhospital and hospital emergency workers. Emotional intelligence is an individual characteristic of an individual that does not affect the level of education, but further and more extensive research is required to confirm the importance of emotional intelligence in the work of emergency medical workers.