Complaints filed against nursing professionals

Abstract

The findings can serve as input to guide nursing schools and boards of nursing in developing policies to raise awareness among nursing professionals, sensitizing them to the responsible provision of care in the light of bioethical and legal principles.

Integrative review of studies about nurses who have been disciplined by their professional regulatory bodies

“…The 17 studies were published in English between 2007 and 2016, and 12 were published between 2008 and 2011. We found that 14 studies were conducted in the USA, and there was one each from Australia (Chiarella & Adrian, ), Israel (Azuri, Haron, Riba, & Sar‐Lev, ) and Brazil (da Silva, Silva Candido, Duarte, & Santos, ; Table ).…”

“…Further three studies were reviews of legal cases related to disciplinary procedures, with no specific research method. The quantitative studies were conducted with statistical analysis methods (Azuri et al, ; Benton & Flynn, ; Hester, Green, Thomas, & Benton, ; Hudspeth, ; Kenward, ; Strong, ; Zhong, Kenward, Sheets, Doherty, & Gross, ; Zhong & Thomas, ), post hoc analysis (Evangelista & Sims‐Giddens, ), retrospective analytic desk research (da Silva et al, ), a longitudinal retrospective cohort study design (Hudson & Droppers, ) and comparative descriptive study design (Jones, Fitzpatrick, & Drake, ). The qualitative method used was content analysis (Azuri et al, ; Chiarella & Adrian, ; Table ).…”

“…In addition, one study reviewed two other cases from the American states of Louisiana and Ohio that resulted in criminal charges for unintentional errors in nursing (Brous, ). The data used in 14 register‐based studies were from databases and registers maintained by government (Azuri et al, ) and nursing authorities (Chiarella & Adrian, ; Clevette, Erbin‐Roesemann, & Kelly, ; da Silva et al, ; Evangelista & Sims‐Giddens, ; Hester et al, ; Hudson & Droppers, ; Hudspeth, ; Jones et al, ; Kenward, ; Strong, ; Zhong et al, ; Zhong & Thomas, ) and insurance companies (Benton & Flynn, ; Table ).…”

“…The insurance company databases included closed claims attributed to insured nurses who had been disciplined (Benton & Flynn, ). Several studies mentioned public records (Hudson & Droppers, ; Jones et al, ; Strong, ), and one was confidential (da Silva et al, ). A specific data collection tool was used in three studies (Hudspeth, ; Zhong et al, ; Zhong & Thomas, ; Table ).…”

Relationship between leadership, bullying in the workplace and turnover intention among nurses

“…In recent years, examples of bullying at work have been widely disseminated in the media and scientific literature and characterized as a type of toxic violence capable of degrading workers’ health (Wright & Khatri, ) and working conditions (Tsai, Han, Chen, & Chou, ). In Brazil, among interprofessional conflicts, bullying has been the primary reason for claims filed by nursing professionals to the Professional Council of Nursing (Schneider & Ramos, ; Silva, Camargo, Candido, Duarte, & Santos, ).…”