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Volume 3
Advanced Practices in Nursing
ISSN: 2573-0347
Advanced Nursing Research 2018
June 14-15, 2018
June 14-15, 2018 | Dublin, Ireland
48
th
World Congress on
Advanced Nursing Research
Coping strategies of prelicensure registered nursing students experiencing student-to-student
incivility
Robin Ann Foreman
King University, USA
Statement of the Problem:
Incivility is rude or discourteous behavior that demonstrates a lack of respect for others. Some
nurses purposefully target each other with uncivil behaviors. Incivility has invaded the nursing educational environment with
deleterious results. Uncivil behaviors perpetrated by nursing students against other nursing students cause psychological and
physiological distress for victims and witnesses. The purposes of this study were to identify the behaviors that constituted
lateral student-to-student incivility, determine the frequency of experienced student-to-student incivility, and describe the
coping strategies employed by prelicensure registered nursing students experiencing lateral student-to-student incivility.
Methodology & Theoretical Orientation:
This quantitative descriptive study recruited prelicensure registered nursing
students in associate degree, baccalaureate degree, and diploma programs using nonprobability convenience sampling through
the email member list of a national student nursing organization. Critical social theory was the study framework to explore
the meaning of civil and uncivil student-to-student interactions and behaviors in daily academic life. Participants completed
the Ways of Coping (Revised) survey and the Incivility in Nursing Education Revised (INE-R) survey anonymously online via
email accounts.
Findings:
The most frequently occurring incivility behavior was the use of media devices for purposes unrelated to the current
educational task. Planful problem-solving (PP) was the coping strategy most often employed by participants. Data was analyzed
comparing participants’ nursing program levels, ages, genders, and ethnicities using descriptive statistics and Kruskal-Wallis
analyses.
Conclusion & Significance:
Four behaviors were identified as highly uncivil: threats about weapons; threats of physical harm;
property damage; and discriminating comments toward others. This is a positive finding as civil societies consider these
activities unacceptable, and often illegal. Recommendation for a universally accepted definition of academic incivility within
the discipline of nursing is promoted so civil behavior can be modeled by educators and taught to students.
Biography
Robin Ann Foreman has been in nursing academia for over ten years. She teaches the Psychiatric/Mental Health course in the BSN Program and the Nurse
Educator track specific courses in the MSN Program. She began studying interpersonal relationships and conflict management among nurses after her clinical
students began experiencing incivility. Her doctoral dissertation investigated student-to-student incivility among prelicensure registered nursing students. She
identified behaviors student nurses consider to be uncivil and coping strategies students employ when they are confronted with incivility. Her future work will be to
develop educational programs to help nursing students have positive outcomes when uncivil behaviors are encountered using the ICE faculty intervention model
for nursing student incivility: identification, coping skills, and empowerment. Critical social theory, oppressed group behavior theory, and the transactional model
of stress and coping have guided this research.
raforeman@king.eduRobin Ann Foreman, Adv Practice Nurs 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.4172/2573-0347-C2-020