Research and Apply Evidence to Practice : Assignment

APPLYING EVIDENCE TO
PRACTICE
Sample Project
ASSESSMENT 2
TRANSLATING EVIDENCE
TO PRACTICE

TRANSLATING EVIDENCE INTO PRACTICE
Bullying at work place is an issues in which people use their power of seniority to force
their sub- ordinates to do something. It is a kind of harassment at work place which is required to
be solved by making several strict legislations in country. Moreover, in case of nursing or
midwifery, it is usually observed that they are forced by their senior specialists to conduct
several things which may be right or wrong (Townsend & Morgan, 2017). It is also observed and
analysed that bullying is reported as s common form of aggression in context of Australian
Nursing which impacts negatively on their personal as well as professional lives. Additionally,
harassment at work place effects in negative manner to an employee in terms of their health,
workplace culture, individual & team work performance, productivity, organisational reputation
and budgets.
This problem is major one in context of nurses as they are not comfortable and remain in
depression due to bullying of their superiors which impacts negatively on their performance. It is
necessary for them to remain careful about patients while carrying out desires treatment
procedure because single minor mistake may create critical problem. However, this issue is
required to be sort out by making strict policies and norms. It should be dealt with in fair, timely,
sensitive, objective and policy- driven away. The power is get misused by individuals who bears
authority to instruct team or group in order to complete desired tasks. However, it is also
considered as a threat from higher management as the basic strategies are fixed by them then
middle levelled superiors follow it to wards their sub- ordinates which results into bullying at
work place in nursing. Meanwhile, it is important to remove factor of bullying from working
area of nursing and midwifery to provide secure work place to them in order to improve patients'
health. Thus, to reduce these loop wholes of existing system, the concepts of change
management is required to be applied properly.
As per views of Ludwig F Lowenstein, bullying behaviours include aggressive or
intimidating conduct, belittling or humiliating comments, spreading malicious rumours and
teasing, practical jokes or initiation ceremonies. Additionally, it also involves exclusion from
work related events, unreasonable performance expectations, displaying offensive material and
pressure to behave in an appropriate manner (Lowenstein, 2018). The government of Australia
apply an appropriate policy to reduce bullying behaviour in nursing to make them feel secure and
comfortable at work place. In this case, Nursing & Midwifery Board Australia (NMBA) has

released a fresh Code of conduct for Nurses and Code of conduct for Midwives. However, it
describes several roles and responsibilities of nurses and midwives in respect of reducing issues
of bullying or harassment (Dang & Dearholt, 2017). They are required to properly analyse
actions or comments which are not tolerable and its impacts on public safety as well. Thus,
several guidelines are released which are mandatory to be followed by nurses and midwives.
Firstly, never engage in, ignore or excuse such behaviour and recognise various forms of
bullying including physical to verbal abuse, racism, discrimination, violence, aggression,
humiliation, pressure in decision making, exclusion etc. Secondly, it is necessary to understand
mechanism of harassment through using of social media and they should ignore the same.
Moreover, taking possible actions at work place for removing bullying and escalate their
concerns if an appropriate response doe s not occur. Thus, it is not considered as matter of
NMBA or Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) but it impacts negatively
on safety of patients then a complaint can be register to the same.
The present assignment will focus on Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovation Theory to discuss
an appropriate procedure of change management for getting favourable results of the same.
(Source: Diffusion Of Innovation, 2018)
Illustration 1: Diffusion Of Innovation