Influence of Teamwork Behaviors on Workplace Incivility as it Applies to Nurses

How to Prevent Workplace Incivility?: Nurses' Perspective

BACKGROUND Many articles have studied workplace incivility and its influence on outcomes, but very few have been conducted to assess how to prevent this issue. In this study, we aimed to determine how to prevent workplace incivility from the nurses' perspective. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a qualitative study which was based on a conventional content analysis approach. Thirty four nurses (...

Problems with competence assessment as it applies to student nurses.

Nursing has enthusiastically embraced the concept of continuing competence as the key means of reassuring the public of the overall quality of the profession. There are many definitions of competence and a number of nursing regulatory bodies have put into operation, a definition which is reductionist rather then holistic in nature. Not surprisingly, and as a consequence many nurses, including n...

Incivility and bullying in the workplace and nurses' shame responses.

Incivility and bullying in the workplace are intimidating forces that result in shame responses and threaten the well-being of nurses. Some nurses are accustomed to tolerating behaviors that are outside the realm of considerate conduct and are unaware that they are doing so. These behaviors affect the organizational climate, and their negative effects multiply if left unchecked. Interventions f...

Workplace Incivility in Schools

This paper investigates the prevalence of coworker and supervisor incivility in the context of K-12 schools and incivility’s possible link to teachers’ commitment to the school and turnover intent. The data were collected via surveys from 94 middle school teachers in the United States. Results indicated that 85% of the teachers experienced coworker incivility over the past year; 71% experienced...

Minimizing incivility in the workplace to increase retention of new graduate nurses