Workplace Bullying Prevalence, Popularity and Its Impact on Nurses’ Profession Commitment

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Nursing administration department- Faculty of Nursing- Cairo University

Abstract

Bullying is an unscrupulous aggressive behavior; this
phenomena has significant negative effects on the victims health, shifting
nurses’ profession, turnover and profit negatively affected. This study aimed
to identify Prevalence, the popularity of nursing clinical areas bullying and its
impact on nurses’ profession commitment. Design: A descriptive
correlational prospective research design was employed. Sample: cross
sectional of 239 nurses from different classes participated in our study. Tool:
the investigator adopts a bullying assessment survey and Nurses’ profession
commitment questionnaire. Result: the study revealed that there was a high
percentage of the nursing staff experience bullying in their clinical workplace
(89%). Also, the result revealed that there was no statistically significant
correlation between the occurrence of the prevalence among nursing
members and their profession commitment. (p = 0.738). Conclusion: Based
on the current result, the investigation result concluded that there was clinical
work bullying in a depiction that is dominant against nursing staff followers
in the clinical areas. Spoken anger and emotional violence were the highest
frequent protruding. Lacking any effect on their commitment for their
profession/ career.

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