Nurse Bullying Answer 2022
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Running head: NURSE BULLYING
NURSE BULLYING
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note
NURSE BULLYING
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note
NURSE BULLYING
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Nurse bullying is a common and ongoing problem against nurses that creates a negative
working environment and unnecessary stress for the nurses being bullied that eventually affects
their performance and causes dissatisfaction. There is a serious need of interventions that will
prepare the nursing students to prevent bullying and how to respond to such violence. “Nurses
Eat Their Young” is an unfortunate phrase used to indicate the bullying behaviors experienced
by the nurses. Evidences have shown the existence of nurse bullying and how it is rapidly
growing in the healthcare sectors and therefore, needs to be seriously addressed and managed by
developing interventions by higher authority and nursing faculties. Recent estimations from the
evidences have shown the occurrence of nurse bullying around 30% (Gillespie et al., 2017).
There has been an increasing incidence of bullying against the nurses who are newly licensed.
These evidences and findings indicate that there is a serious need for interventions that focuses
on this particular issue (Gillespie et al., 2017). Bullying is associated with a combination of
consequences that has serious adverse effect on the nurses, patients as well the healthcare
organizations. These consequences can have impact on the mental health of the nurses, decrease
collaborations and coordination with the team members or colleagues, ineffective
communication that in turn hampers the work productivity of the nurses leading to nurse
dissatisfaction, poorer job commitment that again decreases the quality of care, lead to
medication errors and patient death (Castronovo, Pullizzi & Evans, 2016).
Although nursing is a profession that integrates care and compassion, nurse buying is still
into existence in many healthcare organizations that threatens teamwork, communication and
morale of the nurses and most importantly and significantly, patient safety. It directly hampers
patient’s health outcome and can also lead to patient death (Castronovo, Pullizzi & Evans, 2016).
Undergraduate, or young nurses are more vulnerable to bullying, Incivility, lateral violence,
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Nurse bullying is a common and ongoing problem against nurses that creates a negative
working environment and unnecessary stress for the nurses being bullied that eventually affects
their performance and causes dissatisfaction. There is a serious need of interventions that will
prepare the nursing students to prevent bullying and how to respond to such violence. “Nurses
Eat Their Young” is an unfortunate phrase used to indicate the bullying behaviors experienced
by the nurses. Evidences have shown the existence of nurse bullying and how it is rapidly
growing in the healthcare sectors and therefore, needs to be seriously addressed and managed by
developing interventions by higher authority and nursing faculties. Recent estimations from the
evidences have shown the occurrence of nurse bullying around 30% (Gillespie et al., 2017).
There has been an increasing incidence of bullying against the nurses who are newly licensed.
These evidences and findings indicate that there is a serious need for interventions that focuses
on this particular issue (Gillespie et al., 2017). Bullying is associated with a combination of
consequences that has serious adverse effect on the nurses, patients as well the healthcare
organizations. These consequences can have impact on the mental health of the nurses, decrease
collaborations and coordination with the team members or colleagues, ineffective
communication that in turn hampers the work productivity of the nurses leading to nurse
dissatisfaction, poorer job commitment that again decreases the quality of care, lead to
medication errors and patient death (Castronovo, Pullizzi & Evans, 2016).
Although nursing is a profession that integrates care and compassion, nurse buying is still
into existence in many healthcare organizations that threatens teamwork, communication and
morale of the nurses and most importantly and significantly, patient safety. It directly hampers
patient’s health outcome and can also lead to patient death (Castronovo, Pullizzi & Evans, 2016).
Undergraduate, or young nurses are more vulnerable to bullying, Incivility, lateral violence,
NURSE BULLYING
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bullying and clique behavior particularly during the first 3 months after the licensure (Gillespie
et al., 2017). According to Hutchinson 2013, bullying is defined as a contagious issue spread
through the nursing workforce by infecting the future generations of nurses and directing them to
adopt bullying behaviors (Hutchinson, 2013).There has been an increase in nursing turnover due
to work environment that impacts the performance of nurses because of social exclusion that
again affects the mental wellbeing of a nurse. Clique behavior is often showed based on social
qualifications. He factors that supports clique behavior includes social position, similar interests,
views or purposes and to maintain the clique power structure, bullying or harassments or
exclusion takes place that eventually lowers the self-esteem of the nurses being bullied, feels
insecure about their job, lack of respect and appreciation and the feeling of being left out (White,
2018).
At present, there is no such specific federal statute that requires the protection of
workplace violence, however, several states have been enacting regulations aiming at providing
protection of the healthcare staffs from buying and other misbehaviors in the workplace. The
American Nurses Association have shown support on preventing incivility, lateral violence,
bullying and clique behavior and the related behaviors by creating some key statements that aims
at preventing nurse bullying and any kind of related behaviors.
Answer 1: T.M was subjected to bullying, incivility and clique behavior by the senior nurses
and also her supervisor who continuously blamed her for creating the problems. T.M was not
experienced and hence needed guidance. Since, she was new to this unit, she should not have
been left alone to do her job. There has been a hindrance on protecting the safety of nurse and
more importantly the patient. The expecting mother was in a critical stage when the baby was
about to be delivered, T.M’s supervisors should not have left her alone to deal with the patient in
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bullying and clique behavior particularly during the first 3 months after the licensure (Gillespie
et al., 2017). According to Hutchinson 2013, bullying is defined as a contagious issue spread
through the nursing workforce by infecting the future generations of nurses and directing them to
adopt bullying behaviors (Hutchinson, 2013).There has been an increase in nursing turnover due
to work environment that impacts the performance of nurses because of social exclusion that
again affects the mental wellbeing of a nurse. Clique behavior is often showed based on social
qualifications. He factors that supports clique behavior includes social position, similar interests,
views or purposes and to maintain the clique power structure, bullying or harassments or
exclusion takes place that eventually lowers the self-esteem of the nurses being bullied, feels
insecure about their job, lack of respect and appreciation and the feeling of being left out (White,
2018).
At present, there is no such specific federal statute that requires the protection of
workplace violence, however, several states have been enacting regulations aiming at providing
protection of the healthcare staffs from buying and other misbehaviors in the workplace. The
American Nurses Association have shown support on preventing incivility, lateral violence,
bullying and clique behavior and the related behaviors by creating some key statements that aims
at preventing nurse bullying and any kind of related behaviors.
Answer 1: T.M was subjected to bullying, incivility and clique behavior by the senior nurses
and also her supervisor who continuously blamed her for creating the problems. T.M was not
experienced and hence needed guidance. Since, she was new to this unit, she should not have
been left alone to do her job. There has been a hindrance on protecting the safety of nurse and
more importantly the patient. The expecting mother was in a critical stage when the baby was
about to be delivered, T.M’s supervisors should not have left her alone to deal with the patient in
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