Workplace Violence In Nursing Education

Hypothesis

The perception of final year nursing students being abused by educators

Literature review Magnavita & Heponiemi (2011) conducted a research about the types and sources of abusive and violent behaviours faced by nursing students in their final year of nursing education. Workplace violence, defined as violent acts directed toward workers, includes physical assault, the threat of assault and verbal abuse. It has far reaching and long term consequences for workers health and safety (Magnavita & Heponiemi, 2011).

The same research was shown in 2011, which was concerned with the workplace violence faced by students at their placements and its impacts on the well-being of nurses (Cooper et al.,2011). In order to achieve the perception

This survey was completely unbiased. Students were assured that this survey did not affect their academics in any way (Magnavita &Heppoiemi,2011).

Validation, Reliability and Evaluation

The questions that were put in the survey were unbiased, non-ambiguous and not misleading. The questions were easy to comprehend and decreased the respondents’ burden of completing them. It also allowed the participants to elaborate information that was not captured on the forced response portion. Since the participants in this study were nursing students, care was taken to avoid any semblance of coercion in the recruitment of participants. As well, there is the potential for inaccurate results due to the possibility of over reporting (Cooper et al.,2011).

The results of the study were evaluated by an outside party related to nursing.

It showed that there is an urgent need to set up a standard of conduct for nurses and nursing students to be strictly followed. Nursing students need better support in order to cope with and address bullying behaviours (Bradbury-Jone & Broadhurst, 2015).

The student may have not noticed any bullying or abuse to themselves or to other students and not feel the need to complete the survey. This study described the phenomenon of bullying in nursing education and did not assume causality to define any relationship between the variables.

Another limitation was the level of non-contact with the students not present at the time the survey was administered. The language of the questionnaire could be ambiguous or misleading. In addition to that, some of the respondents might have shared the answers with their classmates. Therefore making the survey less effective. The sample size of the group could diminish throughout the year due to higher dropouts. There is a possibility that students may have felt intimidated or that responses may have not been truthful because of fear of