Bullying In Nursing Practice

Bullying Bullying at the workplace is real and happening to many nurses in different organizations. Fortunately, many major organizations have brought the issue openly for discussion and interventions. Personal experience in the 90’s demonstrated bullying as part of initiation for new nurses. For a novice nurse, the experience must be endured to be accepted in the team. As a result, many nurses felt disheartened, burned out and those who have overcome the bullying sometimes, continued the practice to succeeding nurses. Bullying must stop and not add to the other stress imposed on nurses’ responsibilities. It is every nurse’s task to create a healthy working environment for every team. When one has a good intention, determination, and good example, bullying can be eliminated in his workplace.
Research
According to JCAHO (2016), OSHA magnified the bullying problem with these reports: 21% RNs, physically assaulted, 50% RNs verbally abused in a year, 59% RN’s verbally abused in a week. JCAHO (2016) also mentioned 69% of the bullies were men and the targeted victims were women. Likewise, JCAHO (2016) related 68% women bullying cases targets young, inexperienced women. In the nursing practice, JCAHO (2016) stated that bullying takes the form of verbal abuse, unfair …show more content…
At PRMC, employees are encouraged to report bullying anonymously without fear of retaliation. Furthermore, employees are required to complete the education on dealing with diversity and effective communication techniques. Peer review is also a measure to promote accountability and collegiate atmosphere at PRMC. Nursing students are also taught to confront bullies through a cognitive rehearsal as described in JCAHO (2016). During the rehearsal, JCAHO (2016) explained that student nurses were taught on bullying and given cognitive responses to lateral