The patients should condemn any nurse who propagates lateral violence and informs them of the effect of such violence on the overall healthcare system.
The government is an equal interested party in healthcare provision that must equally play a role in changing the culture of lateral violence. The government regulates health care services and hence must use such regulatory authority to change the culture of lateral violence in healthcare facilities. For instance, the government can institute policies and laws that monitor and give strict consequences to lateral violence in healthcare facilities. This regulation and enforcement will help greatly in changing the culture of lateral violence in healthcare facilities.
Lastly, nurses must themselves play a critical role in changing the culture of lateral violence in healthcare facilities. The nurses should sensitize their fellow nurses on the impact of lateral violence on the entire healthcare system. This understanding will greatly help in creating awareness on the far-reaching effect of lateral violence on the entire healthcare system and hence stop it. Moreover, this peer approach will help to keep each other in check regarding lateral violence and hence create an atmosphere that supports tolerance among nurses.
Evidence Critic Table
Evidence
Evidence strength (1-7) and evidence hierarchy
Pontus, C., & Ortner, P. (2013). The Relationship between Lateral and Horizontal Violence and Bullying. Epidemic of Medical Errors and Hospital-Acquired Infections, 2(2), 209-224
Evidence strength is 2
The article presents a case study showing how bullying, Horizontal and lateral violence interacts. The authors of the article carry out a research study that seeks to demonstrate that interrelationship. This article contributes to the topic of lateral violence by demonstrating how deferent stakeholders foster lateral violence and how they can be involved in changing the culture.
Sanner-Stiehr, E. (2017). Using Simulation to Teach Responses to Lateral Violence. Nurse Educator, 42(3), 133-137.
Evidence strength 6
The article illustrates how simulation can be an effective tool in teaching nurses on the impact of lateral violence and hence contributing to the overall change of the culture of lateral violence in the setting of healthcare facilities. This article contributes to the topic of lateral violence by explaining how the administrations of healthcare facilities can effectively use training as a way of sensitizing about the overall effect of lateral violence to the healthcare system.
Sanner-Stiehr, E., & Ward-Smith, P. (2014). Lateral violence and the exit strategy. Nursing Management (Springhouse), 45(3), 11-15.
Evidence strength 5
This article defines lateral violence and outlines its effect on the healthcare system. The article also discusses how various stakeholders contribute to the existence of lateral violence and how they can equally play a role in eliminating such violence. Overall, the article highlights the various ways through which the healthcare facility can effectively create an atmosphere of tolerance and change the culture of lateral violence. This article is relevant to the current topic as it highlights strategies of exiting from the culture of lateral violence.
Dahlby M.A., Herrick L. M., (2014) Evaluating an Educational Intervention on Lateral Violence. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 45(8), 351-352.
Evidence rating 1
This article evaluates the effectiveness of the educational intervention in eliminating lateral interventions in a healthcare setting. The research presented in this article was conducted through a pre-education evaluation test and a post-education evaluation test on the attitude of nurses towards lateral violence. 29 nurses were sampled for this exercise. The findings of this research indicate that educational interventions help reduce or eliminate the extent of lateral violence in the setting of healthcare. This article is relevant to the topic as it gives practical experimental evidence on the effect of educational interventions on the extent of lateral violence in healthcare facilities.
Ceravolo, D. J., Schwartz, D. G., Foltz-Ramos, K. M., & Castner, J. (2013). Strengthening communication to overcome lateral violence. Journal of Nursing Management, 20(5), 599-606.
Evidence rating 1
This article describes how the strategy of strengthening communication among nurses can effectively help in eliminating lateral violence. The article presents a research study in which nurses were taken through a communicational strengthening educational program and subjected to a pre and post interventions survey. The finding of this research indicates that the reported cases of lateral violence greatly reduced when the nurses were subjected to these interventions. Therefore, the article concludes that strengthening communication among nurses is a strong way of changing…
RN Risk prevention policy in practice The proposed study looks at lateral violence in U.S. healthcare institutions, through the scope of policy formation as it pertains to medical malpractice and organizational behavior in healthcare institutions. In recent years, investigations into lateral violence (LV) in the practice setting have become increasingly important as professional liability to 'duty' in patient care has been put under the microscope. In Tarasoff v. The Regents of the
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