Bullying at Work - What is your experience?

[compassionresearcher]

Dear Allnurses community and Fellow Nurses,

Update: Very close to ending data collection. Thank you for your participation!

I still need about 5 more responses. Please share on FB, Twitter, and whatever social media you use. It's open to any RN who has experienced bullying in the last 30 days, from any part of the world. I'd love to see this go viral so we can help make the workplace healthier for all nurses and their patients.

Thanks again!

I am conducting a research study as part of my doctoral program dissertation, and I need your help. Please share.

This study will be looking at the relationship between workplace mistreatment and nurses' ability to care for patients.

If you have experienced incivility, horizontal violence, or workplace bullying from any hospital employees (nurses, physicians, administration etc.) you may be qualified to participate.

This study is for registered nurses who:

• work in direct patient care.
  
• are employed in a hospital environment.
  
• are able to read and write English.
  
• have experienced workplace mistreatment in the last 30 days.
  

***Advanced practice nurses are excluded from this current study. ***

You can access the survey questionnaires by clicking this link:

Exploring the Relationship between Workplace Mistreatment and Nurses' Ability to Provide Quality Patient Care Survey

It will take about 25-35 minutes to complete the survey.

You will not be asked to include any identifying information.

Please forward to anybody you think may qualify for this study.

Thank you.

Researchers: Christine Moffa, MS, RN and Patricia Liehr, Ph.D., RN

Contact: [email protected] or cell phone: [phone]

[the4ofus]

Thank you for doing this work. I wish you the best and look forward to reading the article in Advance and latter your dissertation lit review. I'm a Ph.D. health psychology candidate; studying compassion fatigue in an acute care nursing population.

[HermioneG, BSN, RN]

I've been bullied twice, and treated badly once, and they were all by young(er) male nurses.

The first guy was my nurse for the day. He was trying to force me to give a very powerful and dangerous medication IV push. That quarter, giving meds IV push was absolutely 100% outside of my scope, and I could have been kicked out of nursing school had I done it. I told him this, but he wouldn't let up and kept ordering me to do it much to the entertainment of the rest of the nurses. He ended up humiliating me in front of the entire lab, after I flat out refused, by saying that I was weak and pathetic.

The second guy was also my preceptor for the day. He kept making sexually inappropriate comments about me, and it went on and on and on. Finally he made a derogatory comment about how I like to "work the pole" and to show him (we were in OR and it was one of the beams/poles that is cemented from the floor to the ceiling) before another nurse told him to knock it off.

And for the third guy, I was told by my clinical instructor to give a paper to the unit secretary for her to make copies. He saw me waiting next to the secretary, snatched the paper away from me, dramatically made me my copies, and said "wow, college educated and you can't even work a copy machine." I don't think he was having a very good day..

Anyways, the point of me saying this is that when I was talking to my friends about the first two stories (who had happened to go to the same clinical site) they said that they experienced the EXACT same thing from nurses in these same units who shared the same name as my nurse. So I think that people that are real bullies do this to many people. It's not personal (usually), so that helped me feel a little better. I also think, though, that we have to be careful with what we label as bullying. The third guy was probably just having a bad day and decided to take an emotional swing at the timid looking nursing student standing at the copier. It was still unkind and uncalled for, though.

Anyways, I just felt the need to share my personal experiences. I will take the survey tonight, if you still need responses!