Types of Faculty Incivility as Viewed by Students in Bachelor of Science in Nursing Programs

Abstract

Nursing faculty and administrators can use the incident typology to guide discussions related to detecting, assessing, and preventing incivility in nursing education.

Faculty incivility: lived experiences of nursing graduates in the United Arab Emirates

“…Although the participants’ uncivil encounters with faculty differed, feeling emotionally traumatized, humiliated and belittled were common among all the shared experiences. This finding is congruent with what previous research discovered about the psychological distress experienced by students exposed to the uncivil faculty behaviour (Altmiller ; Holtz et al ; Mott ). Feelings of anxiety, fear and nervousness experienced by participants were also the most commonly shared emotions by students (Clark ; Vuolo ).…”

“…Some of these strategies include enforcing the nursing code of ethics, adopting a civility policy and incorporating civility into the curriculum through cognitive rehearsal. Developing clear procedures for students to report faculty incivility anonymously (Holtz et al ) and providing students counselling services are equally important. Faculty members are advised to create an environment where students feel respected by engaging them in value clarification activity and involving them in co‐creating classroom norms and policies (Clark ).…”

Incivility through the continuum of nursing: A concept analysis

“…Power gradients exist between individuals of different social or environmental status that create a “sense” of the authority of one individual over another. In nursing, power gradients exist based on seniority and position, or role, within the environment . While seniority is predominantly in the workplace related to the length of service, seniority is also present among nursing students based on their semester placement in the nursing program and nursing faculty based on rank, including tenure or nontenure track and clinical versus didactic role.…”

“…The described demeaning actions were mainly verbal. In the literature, demeaning actions included rude, sarcastic remarks, passive‐aggressive statements, belittling language, and gossiping …”

“…Psychosocial distress diminishes an individual's satisfaction in the workplace leading to a turnover . Psychosocial consequences in the literature include impaired self‐confidence, impaired self‐esteem, and an impaired social image or sense of belonging …”