Violence A Concept Analysis of Lateral Violence Describe the study and how it relates to your area of nursing. As a practicing nurse in the field for 12 years, I can report firsthand to the negative impact that lateral violence has on the quality of experience and treatment in a healthcare context. Indeed, the study in question here, by Embree & White (2010), concerns the destructive consequences of unrestrained lateral violence in

Introduction Lateral violence includes all acts of intimidation, humiliation bullying, unwarranted criticism and angry outbursts among other forms from a worker directed to another working (Clarke, 2014). In my current practice, most experienced nurses often feel superior to their inexperienced junior nurses. Therefore, they treat them with contempt as they feel they are more knowledgeable than them. For instance, one nurse may respond with an outburst on anyone enquiring of something

Definition of Lateral Violence There isn't a universally common definition for lateral violence. In fact, the same vice is also variously referred to as horizontal violence, bullying, work place violence and nursing incivility. According to the American Nursing Association (2011), lateral violence refers to verbal, emotional or physical abuse. Indeed, lateral violence is a common phenomenon in nursing practice. It is both a costly practice to the healthcare organization and the

PICO The PICO question for this study is: Among nurses, how effective is nursing peer review as compared a basic civility tutorial intervention in moderating lateral violence and incivility in the workplace? Introduction: Key Issues How Incivility Impacts the Nursing Profession The issue of incivility in the workplace is one that affects all stakeholders in nursing—from supervisors to nurses on down to patients. Allen, Holland and Reynolds (2015) found, for instance, that when incivility

"As such, the one caring and the one cared-for, both connect in mutual search for meaning and wholeness, and perhaps for the spiritual transcendence of suffering" (Cara 2010). Support groups can be particularly effective in dealing with cultural and generational barriers that can exist between members of the organization. Older nurses often are impatient with younger nurses, and young nurses have historically bourn the brunt of lateral violence. Through informal

Violence MORE THAN A BRAWL A long-standing epidemic, which is recognized and addressed after 25 years, may be as serious as the diseases, which the healthcare industry has been zealously combating. It is called lateral violence or LV. It is hostility in both verbal and physical forms dealt by nurses upon fellow nurses under them, on the same level and among themselves. Six authors discuss its causes, forms, frequency, the victims,