BULLYING IN NURSING
Judith Quisquino
Columbia Southern University
BULLYING IN NURSING
A healthy work environment is meant to support and promote safety, healing, humane characteristics, and respect for all associates and consumers (American Association of Critical Care Nurses [AACN], 2005). Threats toward a healthy work environment may stem from the behavior of the organization’s associates. In healthcare, employee aggression and inappropriate behaviors contribute to poor clinical outcomes. As exemplars, negative employee behaviors increase the risk of error, delays in care, conflict, and stress for all healthcare workers, and adverse events (AACN, 2005).
Bullying behaviors can manifest negatively throughout an healthcare organization emotionally, verbally, or by …show more content…
The healthcare industry holds a high standard of work and practice that is constantly changing. Not every patient case is the same, not every solution is the same. Competition begins at the start of an associate’s education and follows them into the workforce. Nursing programs are impacted; internships are not easy to get into. Duly noted, throughout any industry senior employees have embedded workflows and are self-perceived as experts in their field, making it not so easy to inflict change. New comers can easily be perceived as a threat or ignorant of their practice. Bullying is concerned with power. In the work field, subgroups and cliques form keeping bullying hidden. It is also possible that the manager can use bullying as a way to accomplish work (Lewis, 2006).
There are ethical decisions to be made to combat bullying in Nursing. According to the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, management and staff should partake in skilled communication, true collaboration, effective decision-making, appropriate staffing, meaningful recognition, and authentic leadership (AACN, 2005). In this model, everyone shares
Judith Quisquino
Columbia Southern University
BULLYING IN NURSING
A healthy work environment is meant to support and promote safety, healing, humane characteristics, and respect for all associates and consumers (American Association of Critical Care Nurses [AACN], 2005). Threats toward a healthy work environment may stem from the behavior of the organization’s associates. In healthcare, employee aggression and inappropriate behaviors contribute to poor clinical outcomes. As exemplars, negative employee behaviors increase the risk of error, delays in care, conflict, and stress for all healthcare workers, and adverse events (AACN, 2005).
Bullying behaviors can manifest negatively throughout an healthcare organization emotionally, verbally, or by …show more content…
The healthcare industry holds a high standard of work and practice that is constantly changing. Not every patient case is the same, not every solution is the same. Competition begins at the start of an associate’s education and follows them into the workforce. Nursing programs are impacted; internships are not easy to get into. Duly noted, throughout any industry senior employees have embedded workflows and are self-perceived as experts in their field, making it not so easy to inflict change. New comers can easily be perceived as a threat or ignorant of their practice. Bullying is concerned with power. In the work field, subgroups and cliques form keeping bullying hidden. It is also possible that the manager can use bullying as a way to accomplish work (Lewis, 2006).
There are ethical decisions to be made to combat bullying in Nursing. According to the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, management and staff should partake in skilled communication, true collaboration, effective decision-making, appropriate staffing, meaningful recognition, and authentic leadership (AACN, 2005). In this model, everyone shares