Legislation Against Workplace Bullying The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert (SEA) in 2008 to inform healthcare agencies that intimidating behavior across the healthcare settings has been shown to foster medical errors, contribute to poor patient satisfaction and to preventable adverse outcomes, increase the cost of care, cause qualified clinicians, administrators, and managers to seek new positions in more professional environments (Lim, 2014).
In 2008 the Joint Commission took a stand and acknowledge that workplace bullying is a problem in healthcare and is causing poor patient satisfaction. This lead to regulations being established by the organization to maintain compliance with Joint Commission. The new regulation required …show more content…
Thus, the nursing profession will no longer tolerate violence of any kind from any source. All registered nurses and employers in all settings, including practice, academia, and research must collaborate to create a culture of respect, free of incivility, bullying, and workplace violence. Best practice strategies based on evidence must be implemented to prevent and mitigate incivility, bullying, and workplace violence; to promote the health, safety, and wellness of registered nurses; and to ensure optimal outcomes across the health care continuum” (ANA American Nurses Association, 2016)
Although associations and the Joint Commission has taken initiative to fight workplace bullying and incivility in health care, federally there is no legislation in place to help prevent workplace bullying. Certain states have taken charge and incorporated state legislation that fights workplace violence as a whole. The true change is dependent solely on the actions of the …show more content…
Medical errors are caused by carelessness or lack of attention whether they are intentional or accidental. It is as simple as an ill person does not have the strength to take care of another ill person. Workplace bullying in nursing causes the victim to experience physical symptoms along with mental and emotional. It is the organization's responsibility to create an anti -bullying culture for their employees. It is also the employee’s responsibility to report any occurrence of workplace bullying. An organization should become effervescent with their tolerance policies, encourage social support, maintain a no retaliation policy, enforce the policy when situations happen (Learning zone continuning professional developement, 2007). Unfortunately, the characteristics of workplace bullying are cemented in the building blocks of nursing principles established by Florence Nightingale and have become an ever-present factor in the nursing culture presently. It is necessary to revamp the culture to focus on team building focus instead of individual superiority. Workplace bullying is not just the victim’s problem, it is the problem of the whole organization, and it is going to take the whole organization to conquer
In 2008 the Joint Commission took a stand and acknowledge that workplace bullying is a problem in healthcare and is causing poor patient satisfaction. This lead to regulations being established by the organization to maintain compliance with Joint Commission. The new regulation required …show more content…
Thus, the nursing profession will no longer tolerate violence of any kind from any source. All registered nurses and employers in all settings, including practice, academia, and research must collaborate to create a culture of respect, free of incivility, bullying, and workplace violence. Best practice strategies based on evidence must be implemented to prevent and mitigate incivility, bullying, and workplace violence; to promote the health, safety, and wellness of registered nurses; and to ensure optimal outcomes across the health care continuum” (ANA American Nurses Association, 2016)
Although associations and the Joint Commission has taken initiative to fight workplace bullying and incivility in health care, federally there is no legislation in place to help prevent workplace bullying. Certain states have taken charge and incorporated state legislation that fights workplace violence as a whole. The true change is dependent solely on the actions of the …show more content…
Medical errors are caused by carelessness or lack of attention whether they are intentional or accidental. It is as simple as an ill person does not have the strength to take care of another ill person. Workplace bullying in nursing causes the victim to experience physical symptoms along with mental and emotional. It is the organization's responsibility to create an anti -bullying culture for their employees. It is also the employee’s responsibility to report any occurrence of workplace bullying. An organization should become effervescent with their tolerance policies, encourage social support, maintain a no retaliation policy, enforce the policy when situations happen (Learning zone continuning professional developement, 2007). Unfortunately, the characteristics of workplace bullying are cemented in the building blocks of nursing principles established by Florence Nightingale and have become an ever-present factor in the nursing culture presently. It is necessary to revamp the culture to focus on team building focus instead of individual superiority. Workplace bullying is not just the victim’s problem, it is the problem of the whole organization, and it is going to take the whole organization to conquer