Nursing Bullying in Hospitals

Devi Akella ()
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Devi Akella: Albany State University

Chapter Chapter 6 in Understanding Workplace Bullying, 2020, pp 101-136 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, critical realism paradigm is integrated to question why nursing profession follows a military-type regime culture of “eating their young,” by exposing their junior nurses to workplace bullying and aggression. Qualitative empirical data in the form of nine in-depth interviews with nurses employed at various hospitals is used to demonstrate how workplace bullying is a form of systematic, planned operation of the management to train, socialize, and control their nurses to ensure they are able to consistently deliver quality medical services to their patients. However, this bullying type of management control strategy, where forces of insult and incivility are adopted to subjugate and dominate the nurses, results in a nursing field completely devoid of feelings, compassion, and empathy, whereby reducing job satisfaction and increasing high levels of employee turnover. To mitigate these negative impacts, more dialogic interventions are recommended as emancipatory guidelines to create awareness of more suitable training and development methods.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46168-3_6

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