Background:The 21 st century hospitals that are closed and accusatory in which nurses feel unvalued, and not esteemed are considered as toxic workplaces which sequentially will remain nurses more silent about variety of issues. Such behavior impairs performance, development and improvement in these hospitals. Aim: Current study aimed to investigate the relationship between work place toxicity, organizational silence and thriving among nurses. Materials and method:A descriptive correlational research design was utilized with a convenience sample of 235 nurse were participated from different departments at one of the general hospitals (El Salam Hospital) in Port Said, Egypt. Tools of data collection: Included staff nurses' personal characteristics, toxic workplace environment questionnaire, organizational silence scale, and thriving at work scale. Results: The lowest percent of staff nurses had high workplace toxicity and high level of organizational silence, meanwhile, more than half (53.6%) of them reflected passion for learning and wish to stay and headway in their hospital. A statistically significant negative correlation between thriving at work and workplace toxicity and organizational silence. A highly statistically significant positive correlation between toxic workplace environment and organizational silence was found. Conclusion: Work place toxicity contributes to more silence among staff nurses that prevent work flourishing and push nurses to leave. Recommendations: Continuous training programs for nurses to teach them about the importance of a healthy work environment to avoid the negative impacts of work place toxicity on psychological status.
Background: Dissociation, intense grief, anger, and survivor's guilt are common responses as people split off mentally, physically, and emotionally from the source of the violence. Violence and dissociation in a cross-cultural perspective examines the psychological, sociological, political, economic, and cultural aspects of violence and its consequences on people around the world. Aim: Current study aimed to investigate the relation between dissociative experiences and violence, among student nurses. Materials and method: A descriptive correlational research design was utilized, as all students' nurses who enroll in the first, second and third levels at Port Said Faculty of Nursing, Egypt (460 students) were participated in the study. Tools of data collection: Included socio-demographic characteristics of the studied subjects, dissociative experience scale and violence scale. Results: student nurses had high level of dissociative experiences, and more than half of student nurses had moderate violence, with a higher mean score for indirect violence. Conclusion: the study finding concluded that a statistically significant positive correlation was detected between overall violence & dissociative experiences, also a statistically significant positive correlation was detected between the indirect, physical violence and dissociative experiences. Recommendations: recommendations for clinical applications include routine screening of offenders among adolescents to detect the dissociative symptoms early and adequate consideration should be given to detect the dissociation disorders in the development process and implement violence prevention and management programs.
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