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Beating the Bullying Cycle:

*Eating our Young*

Bullying

Creating a Healthy Work Environment

  • “repeated, offensive, abusive, intimidating, or insulting behaviors; abuse of power; or unfair sanctions that make recipients feel humiliated, vulnerable, or threatened, thus creating stress and undermining their self-confidence.”

As in most dysfunctional situations, the first step toward change is admitting a problem exists. If bullying has long been accepted as the norm, the problem may be hard to recognize.

Factors That Give New Nurses a More Positive Experience

What New Nurses Can Do

  • Make an environment that is supportive of learning
  • Allow the new nurse to work with a preceptor for as long as he/she needs
  • Encouraging the new nurse to ask for help
  • Experienced nurses show interest in the new nurses' opinion
  • Giving compliments to the new nurses

  • Be willing to ask for help
  • Accept and value the knowledge of experienced nurses
  • Avoid acting like you know everything
  • Do not hesitate to ask questions
  • Always express your appreciation to those who have helped you

Effects of Workplace bullying

What Experienced Nurses Can DO

  • Bullying creates a toxic work environment with serious consequences for victims, institutions and, ultimately, patients.
  • Many new nurses lack confidence to begin with and require positive feedback about their performance; bullying makes them feel invisible, incompetent, and inferior.
  • Bullying victims may suffer stress-related health problems, such as nausea, headache, insomnia, anxiety, depression, weight changes, and alcohol and drug abuse.
  • Encourage new nurses to take on challenges
  • Accept valuabe information from new nurses
  • Let new nurses grow in their own practice
  • Encourage constant expansion of knowledge
  • Be quick with compliments to increase self esteem
  • Be patient

Survivor Syndrome

Common Bullying Behaviors Used by Nurses

  • Nurses who survive bullying early in their careers tend to carry their learned behaviors with them. They accept the bully culture as part of the job and eventually choose one of two paths: leave the unhealthy work environment in search of a healthier one, or participate in the culture either as a bully or bystander.
  • verbal insults
  • withholding information
  • backstabbing
  • failing to respect privacy
  • breaking confidences
  • gossiping
  • exclusion

Zero- tolerance policy

  • To end abusive behaviors, hospitals must implement clear zero-tolerance policies.

References

Miracle, V. (2005). A closing word: Eating our young. Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, 24(5), 253-254. http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/JournalArticle?Article_ID=60

9091&Journal_ID=54014&Issue_ID=609062

Steed, C. (2004). "Eating our young" isn't practiced here. Nursing, 34(8), 43.

Townsend, T. (2012). Break the bullying cycle. American Nurse Today, 7(1), 12-15.

Why is beating bullying so important?

We Will Survive!

  • Roughly 60% of new RNs quit their first job within 6 months of being bullied, and one in three new graduate nurses considers quitting nursing altogether because of abusive or humiliating encounters.

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