Observations of Bullying: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
AshEse Journal of Family and Lifestyle
Vol. 5(2), pp. 051-057, July, 2021
ISSN: 2517-1720
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Observations of Bullying: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Carol Rocker
Island Health and University of Victoria, Margaret Eastman, RN MN. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Received June, 2021; Accepted July, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative study is to describe the narratives of individuals experiencing bullying in their workplace, significant their understanding of solutions, perspectives, and attitudes toward bullying behaviors. Contributing factors—change in leadership, rigid bureaucracy, negative workplace culture pitting nurses against the nurse, loss of space, nursing the patients in hallways, and low healthcare quality linked to inadequate staffing. Health care professionals are self-reporting depression, loneness, isolation, and fear, a sense of sadness, powerlessness, and loss of employment. Bullying should have the same status as the legal system assigns to workplace harassment and violence. No one should suffer the consequences of bullying inflicted on them in a hostile work environment by all age groups. Bullying no longer is attributed to older nurses eating their young but the reversal in true of younger nurses skillfully suggesting that older nurses no longer belong in the workforce, asking them about their retirement plans.
Key words: Workplace bullying, fear, grief, loss, powerless, psychological well-being, resignation, and younger and older nurses