How does workplace bullying influence nurses' abilities to provide patient care? A nurse perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Aims and objectives

To explore how workplace bullying influences nurses' abilities to provide patient care.

Background

Nurses' experiences of workplace bullying undermine nursing work environments and potentially threaten patient care. Although there is a link between nurses' experiences of workplace bullying and poor patient care, additional exploration is necessary as current evidence remains underdeveloped and inconclusive.

Design

Qualitative descriptive study.

Methods

Fifteen inpatient staff nurses who have experienced workplace bullying while working in one hospital located in the southern region of the USA participated in individual, semi-structured interviews. Inductive thematic analysis was used to analyse interview transcripts in NVivo 12 software. The

SUBMITTER: Anusiewicz CV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8040339 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature