Developing bullying prevention guidelines for nurse interns' and its effects on their assertiveness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Bullying is a serious problem that has short and long term negative consequences for nurse interns. Bullying prevention guidelines have a great impact on reducing the incidence of bullying among nurse interns.

Aim

The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of developing bullying prevention guidelines on nurse interns' assertiveness levels.

Methods

A methodological study design was used to conduct the study at Ain Shams University Hospitals in Cairo Governorate, Egypt. The study subjects consisted of all nurse interns enrolled in the 2022-2023 internship year and their number 121 nurse interns. The data were collected using four tools: the Bullying Knowledge Questionnaire, the Negative Act Questionnaire Revised (NAQ-R), the Individual Bullying Behaviors

SUBMITTER: Abou El Yazied LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11251234 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature