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Deconstructing contributing factors to bullying and lateral violence in nursing using a postcolonial feminist lens.
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Contemporary Nurse: A Journal for the Australian Nursing Profession . Oct2012, Vol. 42 Issue 2, p226-242. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Bullying and lateral violence is a reality in the workplace for many nurses and has been explored in nursing literature for at least three decades. Using a postcolonial feminist approach this paper examines what contributes to bullying and lateral violence in the nursing workplace by deconstructing the findings from a British Columbia Nurses Union and Union of Psychiatric Nurses study. Theories of oppression and organizational context which have appeared in the literature serve to inform the discussion. A postcolonial lens provides an opportunity to come to grips with the insidiousness of bullying and lateral violence. An adaption of Phillips, Lawrence, and Hardy's (2004) framework is used to unpack discourses, actions, texts, and organizational practices to challenge taken-for-granted hegemonies in the workplace. Taking this different view has enabled new prisms of understanding to emerge from the contributing factors identified in the study. Based on this analysis it is clear that bullying and lateral violence is deeply institutionalized. Nurses, managers, and organizations need to interrupt and interrogate the embeddedness of bullying and lateral violence in order to create a civil workplace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *BULLYING prevention
*PREVENTION of violence in the workplace
*BULLYING
*LEGAL compliance
*CONCEPTUAL structures
*CONFLICT management
*CORPORATE culture
*EXPERIENTIAL learning
*FEMINIST criticism
*FOCUS groups
*INDUSTRIAL relations
*INTERGENERATIONAL relations
*INTERPERSONAL relations
*INTERPROFESSIONAL relations
*JOB descriptions
*LABOR discipline
*MATHEMATICAL models
*MEDICAL quality control
*MEDICAL personnel
*NURSE administrators
*NURSES
*PSYCHOLOGY of nurses
*NURSING
*NURSING services administration
*OPPRESSION
*PERSONNEL management
*POWER (Social sciences)
*PRACTICAL nurses
*PROFESSIONS
*RESEARCH funding
*RISK management in business
*STATISTICAL sampling
*GENDER role
*SOCIAL groups
*SURVEYS
*VIOLENCE in the workplace
*WORK
*WORK environment
*EMPLOYEES' workload
*QUALITATIVE research
*ORGANIZATIONAL structure
*THEORY
*GRADUATES
*PROFESSIONALISM
*QUANTITATIVE research
*SECONDARY analysis
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10376178
- Volume :
- 42
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Contemporary Nurse: A Journal for the Australian Nursing Profession
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 104442220
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5172/conu.2012.42.2.226