Nurses facing lateral violence

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This study was carried out on Nurses’ Faced Lateral Violences at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital. Lateral violence, which exists in many professions, is not excluded from the nursing profession. The purpose of this study was to examine lateral violence in nursing. About 125 Nurses’ were interviewed by direct questionnaire methods regarding the nurse’s faced lateral violence in this Hospital.  This thesis describes the development of a quantitative descriptive exploratory survey was developed to explore lateral violence on three nursing groups Nursing Students, Senior Staff Nurses / Staff Nurses and Nursing Instructor/ Nursing Supervisor in this Hospital.
Nearly 40% of the respondents were Students Nurse (StN), 40% of the respondents were Senior Staff Nurse(SSN)/ Staff Nurse(SN) and another 20% were Nursing Instructor(NI)/ Nursing Supervisor(NS). About 40% of the respondent nurses were 18-27 years. Majority of the respondents about 91.2% were female. Most of the nurses 57.6% were Married, 41.6% were Single and 0.8% were Widow. About 27.2% of the respondents have S.S.C., 68% have H.S.C., Remaining 4.8% of the respondents having above H.S.C.. Regarding professional qualification 32% of respondent’s have Diploma in Nursing & Midwifery/Orthopedics, 4% B.Sc in Nursing (Post basic), 8.8% of B.Sc. in Public Health Nursing, 40% Basic B. Sc in Nursing (On going) and remaining 15.2% have M.P.H. Only 7.2% respondents having any special course. About 48.8% of respondents service/practice length were 1-10 years, 21.6% were 11-20 years, 16% were 21-30 years and the remaining 13.6% were 30-40 years.
Almost 49.6% Nurses were strongly agree that, they were aware  that lateral violence is prevalent on nursing unit, 36.8% Nurses were agree that they had been denied access to learning opportunities by another Nurse and only 28% agree by the doctor. 32% Nurses agree for the repercussion and 40.8% Nurses agree for feeling a lack of support by the co-workers. Most 30.4% agree and 24.8% strongly agree for feeling threatened by Nurse, 28.8% agree and 26.4% strongly agree for threatened by Doctor,  32.8% agree and 31.2% strongly agree for threatened by 3rd & 4th class employees, 29.6% agree and 24.8% strongly agree for threatened by patients attendance, only 16.8% agree and 39.2% disagree for threatened by patients, 25.6% agree and 28.8% strongly agree for threatened by political/local personnel. 26.4% agree and 25.6% strongly agree for harass by others, only 24.6% harassed by doctor and 75.4% harassed by Nurse. 32% nurse agree that they were felt humiliated by another nurse. The findings further show that 25.6% were agree and 28% strongly agree about mistreatment has caused direct effect on patient care and  31.2% agree that has been witnessed by visitors. About 64% respondents strongly disagree that they have education for coping with situation about lateral violence. Only 28 respondents given comments about this survey.