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Bullying among nursing staff

Health Care Management ReviewPublished 24 February 2014
W. Geoff Wright, Naresh Khatri
Citations106
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score1.13
SNIP1.19

TL;DR

Findings from this study suggest that bullying behaviors exist and affect psychological/behavioral responses of nurses such as stress and anxiety and medical errors.

Abstract

Findings from this study suggest that bullying behaviors exist and affect psychological/behavioral responses of nurses such as stress and anxiety and medical errors. Health care organizations should identify bullying behaviors and implement bullying prevention strategies to reduce those behaviors and the adverse effects that they may have on psychological/behavioral responses of nurses and medical errors.

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Social SciencesHealth Professions