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Bullying In Nursing

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Bullying in the work place is a never a comfortable thing, especially for the victims. Nurses spend over half of their day at work, which is more than what they spend with their family. Therefore, it is important that the work force is safe from bullying and is accommodating to everyone. Bullying has been a problem in the work place for a number of years and the same goes for the nursing workforce. Bullying is a very disruptive behavior in the workplace and it can lower the morale among staff as a result. This type of disruptive behavior will cause nursing staff to call out on a regular basis, or even quit their jobs. Bullying can also lower the standard of the profession and when patients see such disruptive behavior, it also makes the profession looks bad. Moreover, bullying can be very detrimental to the nurses’ ability to care for their patients. It can have a major psychological effect on nurses, that they can loose …show more content…

Bullying in the workplace are not just affecting workers in the united states, but around the world and it is sad to say it is a serious concern in nursing profession. Nurses are being abuse on a daily basis, and the victims are not able to react or defend themselves. There was a study that was done in Taiwan about bullying of nurses in the workplace, and it has shown that 20% of nurses were victims of physical violence, 52%were verbally abuse, 30% were subjected of verbally abuse and about 13% were sexually harassed (Lowenstein, 2013). These numbers are very alarming, and there should be no nurse going to work being scared, thinking that they could be a victim. Another study was done in the united states regarding bullying, it shows that 23% of bullying occurs in the medical surgical units, while 18% occurs in the critical care units and 12% in the emergency

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