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New Graduate Nurses Perception of the Workplace: Have They Experienced Hostility?

Vogelpohl, Darla A.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1301938365

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2011, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Toledo, Foundations of Education: Educational Psychology.
Understanding the new graduate nurse’s recognition of hostility in the workplace may give insight into how to handle encounters with this workplace problem. Preventing new graduate nurses from leaving the nursing profession in the first three years after graduation is an important issue as there is a growing nursing shortage of qualified licensed RNs. Through nursing education, the new nurse graduate needs to be prepared to recognize and handle the negative behaviors that may exist in workplace bullying This study investigated the bullying experience of 135 newly graduated RNs, using the Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised, developed by Norwegian researchers. The participants reported that 20.5% of them had been bullied in the workplace and 46.7% had observed bullying in the workplace. Sixty percent of the new nurse graduate participants reported the main person causing the problem in the workplace were peers, physicians, and the patient’s family. Bullying affected the job performance for 31.6% and 29.5% had considered leaving the nursing profession. Less than one-fourth of the participants reported that bullying was a covered topic in their nursing curriculum in school. Policies to deal with bullying in the workplace were supported by 96% of the participants. Internal and external behavioral reactions to bullying were analyzed.
Mary Ellen Edwards, PhD (Committee Chair)
Lisa Kovach, PhD (Committee Chair)
Christopher Bork, PhD (Committee Member)
Patricia Devlin, PhD (Committee Member)
Susan Rice, PhD (Committee Member)
173 p.
Educational Psychology; Nursing
workplace bullying; new graduate nurses

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  • Vogelpohl, D. A. (2011). New Graduate Nurses Perception of the Workplace: Have They Experienced Hostility? [Doctoral dissertation, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1301938365

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Vogelpohl, Darla. New Graduate Nurses Perception of the Workplace: Have They Experienced Hostility? 2011. University of Toledo, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1301938365.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Vogelpohl, Darla. "New Graduate Nurses Perception of the Workplace: Have They Experienced Hostility?" Doctoral dissertation, University of Toledo, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1301938365

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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