Preparing Students for Incivility, Bullying & Lateral Violence in the Workplace

Catalog description

This course is designed to prepare nursing students and new graduate nurses' education for encounters with incivility, bullying, and lateral violence in the workplace. Course content will include reviewing the personal and professional impact of incivility, bullying, and lateral violence. It will also include how incivility, bullying, and lateral violence influences patient care, professional self-esteem, self-worth, and physical and emotional health. Current nursing position statements, policies, and protections will be explored. Resiliency and self-care skills will be taught along with training in conflict resolution and professional communication to help empower students to address incivility, bullying, and lateral violence in the workplace. Orem's Self-Care Theory will serve as the theoretical framework for the course.