An educational intervention to promote civility in nursing: a pilot study
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Robin Elaine Murray
Abstract
Objectives
Nursing students are ill equipped to handle uncivil situations in the workplace. The purpose of this project was to determine if providing students with education about identifying and addressing incivility would alter how students perceived their ability to recognize and address uncivil situations when encountered.
Methods
This pre–post-test comparative pilot study used the Generalized Self Efficacy Scale along with The Confidence Scale to measure student self-efficacy and confidence before and after the receipt of educational interventions on recognizing and addressing uncivil behaviors.
Results
The statistical analysis reveals an increase in both self-efficacy and confidence scores in recognizing and addressing uncivil behaviors following the educational interventions (p=0.000, p<0.001, respectively).
Conclusions
Educating pre-licensure nursing students about incivility increases self-efficacy and confidence levels in pre-licensure nursing students to recognize and address uncivil behaviors when encountered.
Research funding: None declared.
Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.
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- Editorial
- A note of gratitude
- Research Articles
- Assessing baccalaureate nursing students’ knowledge and attitudes of social determinants of health after a health equity simulation
- Use of phenomenography in nursing education research
- A comparison of RN licensure test plans: the United States and China with implications for the Chinese nursing licensure exam
- From practical nurse to bachelor of nursing student: bridging the transition
- A caring model for nursing education
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- Self-compassion in undergraduate nursing: an integrative review
- Seeking transformation: how students in nursing view their academic writing context – a qualitative systematic review
- Assessing knowledge of genomic concepts among Canadian nursing students and faculty
- Nurse students’ attitudes toward the nursing profession after witnessing workplace violence
- The effectiveness of scenario-based learning to develop patient safety behavior in first year nursing students
- Impact of an extracurricular, student-led journal club on evidence-based practice among baccalaureate nursing students
- Nursing students’ engagement and experiences with virtual reality in an undergraduate bioscience course
- Concept-based curriculum: design and implementation strategies
- Assessing the impact of mentorship on nurses’ and midwives’ knowledge and self-efficacy in managing postpartum hemorrhage
- Teaching evidence-based nursing practice to student nurses in developing countries: strategies for novice nurse educators
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