A pilot study examining the effects of faculty incivility on nursing program satisfaction

Nursing faculty academic incivility: perceptions of nursing students and faculty

“…Compared to other studies this incidence of NF incivility is low. In one study conducted in USA more than 50% of NS in the BSN program experienced an act NF incivility [ 10 ], while in another, 61% of the NS reported uncivil or humiliating behaviors by NF [ 12 ]. An earlier study showed that 88% of the NS reported experiencing at least one instance of uncivil NF behaviors [ 26 ].…”

“…However, increasingly NF members are curtailing their efforts towards role modeling of future nurses with incivility acts in the academic setting. Studies conducted in USA show that in some nursing programs up to 35% of NS experience at least one NF who puts them down or is condescending during educational experiences [ 10 ]. There are no studies from other parts of the world that can be used for comparison.…”

“…The outcomes of NS feelings of helplessness and frustration affect their interactions with the NF, and these student emotions are portrayed as disrespect to NF, side talks in class, failure to control what is said to NF, and others [ 13 ]. The other outcomes of NF initiated academic incivility include student avoidance of the faculty, feelings of nervousness, anxiety, depression, and low satisfaction with the nursing program among NS [ 10 ]. During classroom learning activities a dissatisfied and depressed NS may be perceived by the NF as disinterested or uncivil.…”

Nursing’s future? Eat young. Spit out. Repeat. Endlessly

“…It matters little to those on the receiving end whether this bullying is vertical, horizontal, social, circular or omni‐directional. What matters is the extensive damage to their lives, health and careers (Hallberg & Strandmark, ) and to health service morale, retention and both clinical and education quality in the broader picture (Marchiondo, Marchiondo, & Lasiter, ; Todd, Byers, & Garth, ). We can almost hear the pushback that says these new graduate nurses are lucky to have jobs at all and that if they had been properly trained to develop “resilience,” they would not be complaining.…”

“…If this sounds “harsh,” consider that health and higher education services do not exist primarily to provide jobs for those demonstrably unable to live up to the organization's stated values or to the professional values inherent in being a nurse or health professional. Aside from the massive estimated financial costs to the UK NHS alone of some £2 BILLION per year https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/07/nhs-bullying-harassment-toxic-staff-costing-billions (Accessed 2 April 2019), the damage that bullying, incivility and destructive professional attitudes and behaviours do to organizational culture, nurse retention, morale, reputation and service quality (Blevins, ; Hutton & Gates, ; Marchiondo et al, ; Porath & Pearson, ; Todd et al, ) is manifestly too great for nurse bullying to be allowed to exist and for the bullies and their “Killer Elite” ilk (Thompson & Darbyshire, ) to be allowed to continue their “reign of terror” (Goldberg, Beitz, Wieland, & Levine, ; p. 191).…”