An exploration of bullying behaviours in nursing: a review of the literature

7/12/2017

This month's journal club selection, An exploration of bullying behaviours in nursing: a review of the literature, explores workplace bullying in the nursing profession.

The article is available at: http://shura.shu.ac.uk/

After reading this article, please respond to the following questions in the comment section below:

What is something in the article you've found that challenges your preconceived notions about bullying?
What suggestions from the article would you bring forward as modifications in your workplace to discourage bullying?
What type of resources would be needed to implement your proposed changes?

References:
Wilson, Janet (2016). An exploration of bullying behaviours in nursing : a review of the literature. British Journal of Nursing, 25 (6), 303-306.

5 Comments

Chrissy Curcio

7/20/2017 08:54:49 am

1.What is something in the article you've found that challenges your preconceived notions about bullying?

"most bullying as being same gender and more prevalent in workplaces where one gender is dominant"

I was surprised to read about the influence of gender in bullying! One would infer from this author's findings that the more gender diverse a work environment is the less occurrence of bullying there is. This definitely challenged my preconceived notions about bullying.

Kelly Recchio

9/19/2017 10:14:06 am

One of the characteristics of bullying that surprised me is the idea that being ignored is considered abusive. I'm sure we all know that it doesn't feel good, but clearly, when one thinks about it, this is a passive aggressive action that is subtle but destructive.

That bullying occurs more among a same gender doesn't surprise me. What would be interesting to me, if the article were to be expanded, is the types of bullying more commonly attributed to gender.

Christina Curcio

11/2/2017 09:38:26 am

Well put Kelly

Eileen Block

9/24/2017 03:26:48 pm

1) What is something in the article you've found that challenges your preconceived notions about bullying?

'Other forms of bullying identified were the 'moving of goalposts' in a person's work without informing them of the changes (Quine 2001), staff being manipulated into taking on roles and tasks that were not in their best interests, having all their decisions systematically challenged, given confusing and inaccurate information and deliberately informed tasks were urgent when they were not (Cahu et al 2014).'

This does not directly effect my preconceived ideas of bullying, but it does effect my ideas of nursing and what it means to be a nurse. The kinds of bullying mentioned here directly effect patient care in addition to effecting the nurse, her confidence to make critical thinking decisions and her psychological security in the work environment.

2) What suggestions from the article would you bring forward as modifications in your workplace to discourage bullying?

This is a tough question without a good answer because I believe it was not well addressed in the article. The article talks essentially about 3 different things; Hope, humor and modeling by management. The first two concepts are related to the nurses personality. It places all the responsibility on changing a bully environment on the bullied. The third concept gives no guidelines on HOW the management is supposed to model the anti-bullying behavior. I believe more studies need to be done regarding actual techniques and methods to end work this type of workplace violence against and perpetrated by nurses.

Christina Curcio

11/2/2017 09:41:39 am

Wow Eileen - you definitely surprised me but I agree with your critical appraisal of the author's guidance - that it places all the responsibility on changing a bully environment on the bullied and does not explain the "how" to model the positive behavior!

An exploration of bullying behaviours in nursing: a review of the literature

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