NR581NP Week 7 Discussion: Incivility in the Workplace

CLASS:

NR581NP – Foundational Concepts for Advanced Nursing Practice

NR581NP Week 7 Discussion: Incivility in the Workplace

Preparing the Discussion

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the discussion. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.

Include the following sections:

1. Application of Course Knowledge: Reflect on an experience in which you were directly involved or witnessed incivility in the workplace and answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
   1. Provide a brief synopsis of the situation.
   2. Describe how the situation made you feel. Discuss your response or the response of others involved.
   3. What were the consequences of this situation? Provide an example of how this affected the work environment and outcomes.
   4. How could the situation have been prevented? Discuss evidence-based strategies to support a healthy work environment.

SOLUTION

(a) Brief Synopsis of the Situation

When health care practitioners display uncivil behaviors their work environment becomes toxic while simultaneously decreasing teamwork between staff members and endangering patient safety. Public criticism of a newly hired NP by a senior nurse took place during an acute care discussion about patient cases. The senior nurse cut off the NP’s recommended treatment change by speaking in an arrogant voice that the NP’s solution was misguided. The senior nurse removed………………………………….purchase solution at $5 only