Managerial Caring and Perceived Exposure to Workplace Bullying: A Nursing Perspective
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 4
Abstract
Background: The creation of a caring culture within the work environment is crucial to the role of the nurse manager and has been appealed to cultivate caring connections between managers and nurses, nurses themselves, and in the long run between nurses and their patients. Still obscure, whether managerial caring practice and behaviors can reduce the nurses' genuine or perceived exposure to workplace bullying. Purpose: This study aimed to explore whether there is an association between staff nurses’ perception of nurse manager caring behaviors and their perceived exposure to workplace bullying within their healthcare setting. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectionalcorrelational design was conducted at all inpatient medical and surgical care units at Alexandria Main University Hospital. Caring Factor Survey–Caring of the Manager (CFS-CM) and Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised (NAQ-R), were given to 347 nurses to investigate their perception of the study variable, respectively. Results: The current study revealed that a higher number of staff nurses perceived their managers as moderately caring. About two-thirds of participants (66.67%) perceived exposure to negative acts in the workplace particularly, work-related bullying factors. A statistically significant, negative, linear relationship was found between Managerial Caring behaviors of first-line nurse managers and the overall nurses’ exposure to bullying behaviors (r=-0.318, p<0.001). In addition, regression analysis revealed that managerial caring significantly contribute to the prediction of 14.7%of nurses’ exposure of bullying behaviors in the workplace where the regression model is significant (F=59.634, p<0.001). Conclusion and recommendation: These findings spotlight the importance of caring leadership and the substantial role of nurse manager caring behaviors in building-related positive and supportive work environment and reducing workplace bullying behaviors. Nurse Managers haveto consolidate all the caritas procedures and practices and give careful consideration to nurses' need in their relationship with nurses. Awareness and management of the work assignments are crucial to enable nurses get sensible workload and to reduce the risk of work-related bullying behaviors associated with work stressors. Findings may also recommend that caring should be integrated more into nursing curricula and training on caring competenciesis relevant for the nurse managers’ role either within nursing education programs and/or clinical settings.
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Ebtsam Aly Abou Hashish, SabreenMahoud Aly Khatab
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