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Bullying in Nursing

Introduction
The nursing organisation workplace has been identified as one in which workplace bullying occurs quite frequently. It is thought that relational aggression (psychological aspects of bullying such as gossipping and intimidation) are relevant. Relational aggression has been studied amongst girls but not so much amongst adult women. According to a finding, 74% of the nurses, 100% of the anesthetists, and 80% of surgical technologists have experienced or witnessed uncivil behaviors like bullying by nursing faculty. There have been many incidents that have occurred throughout the past couple of years. OSHA, which stands for “Occupational Safety and Health Administration” stated that from 2011 to 2013, the United States healthcare workers experienced  15,000 to 20,000 significant injuries while in the workplace (ECRI, 2017, para. 4). The information about healthcare workers getting abused has only been out for the past couple of years. It is considerably more common for violence to occur in healthcare facilities rather than any other industry.

Various bullying permutations are possible, such as:


 * doctor or management bullying a nurse
 * nurse bullying another nurse
 * nurse bullying a patient
 * patient bullying a nurse
 * nurse bullying other healthcare providers

Remedial action[edit]
Some health organizations are seeking to educate staff and health care team members on how to improve social interactions, proper business etiquette, and foster positive people skills in the work environment. Nurses are entitled to monetary compensation for bullying. There needs to be better ways for the workers to make sure not only their physical body is safe but also their mental state of mind. To take care of these healthcare workers they should increase missed workdays and reduce the amount of burnout. Some healthcare professionals work for more than 12 hours of abuse throughout and don't get a break. Then they have to go in the next day and do it all over again. There should be an increase of self protection maybe with own personal items or more surveillance around the workplace. They could also create outreach programs for people that have gone through this and just need a place to feel safe again.

Health Professions

Mental health
A mental health professional is a health worker who offers services to improve the mental health of individuals or treat mental illness. These include psychiatrists, psychiatry physician assistants, clinical, counseling, and school psychologists, occupational therapists, clinical social workers, psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioners, marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, as well as other health professionals and allied health professions. These health care providers often deal with the same illnesses, disorders, conditions, and issues; however, their scope of practice often differs. The most significant difference across categories of mental health practitioners is education and training. There are many damaging effects to the health care workers. Many have had diverse negative psychological symptoms ranging from emotional trauma to very severe anxiety. Health care workers have not been treated right and because of that their mental, physical, and emotional health has been affected by it. The SAGE author’s said that there were 94% of nurses that had experienced at least one PTSD after the traumatic experience. Others have experienced nightmares, flashbacks, and short and long term emotional reactions (Goldblatt et al., 2017, para. 8) The abuse is causing detrimental effects on these health care workers. Violence is causing health care workers to have a negative attitude toward work tasks and patients, and because of that they are “feeling pressured to accept the order, dispense a product, or administer a medication”(Johnson, DeMass Martin, & Markle-Elder, 2007, para. 5). Sometimes it can range from verbal to sexual to physical harassment, whether the abuser is a patient, patient’s families, physician, supervisors, or nurses.

 Abuse by Patients 

Many health care workers are being assaulted and abused by patients and their families. The patients are selecting victims who are more vulnerable. For example Cho said that these would be the nurses that are lacking experience or trying to get used to their new roles at work (Cho et al., 2020, para. 3). Usually nurses that are very inexperienced because of their lack of time being there are usually disrespected. Many health care workers have been or could be in very severe peril for the amount of violence that has been going on. Others authors that agree with this are Vento, Cainelli, & Vallone and they said that, the reason patients have caused danger to health care workers is because of insufficient communication between them, long waiting lines, and overcrowding in waiting areas (Vento, Cainelli, & Vallone, 2020, para. 8). When patients are intrusive and/or violent toward the faculty, this makes the staff question what they should do about taking care of a patient. This can cause the caregiver to doubt oneself and not think they are valued enough at their job. There have been many incidents from patients that have really caused some health care workers to be traumatized and have so much self doubt. Goldblatt and other authors  said that there was a lady who was giving birth, her husband said, “Who is in charge around here”? “Who are these sluts you employ here” (Goldblatt et al., 2017, para. 40)   This was very avoidable to have been said to the people who are taking care of your wife and child. These healthcare workers that do so much for other people, should be treated with a little more respect than they are given.