Question

Chapter 25 – Workplace Issues Complete the following Critical Thinking Exercises.

2. Describe an incident where you witness lateral violence or bullying in the workplace or the clinical setting. Could the situation have been avoided? If yes please explain.

3. Zerwekh discussed the fact that workers are unprepared to deal with a bully in the work place. However, there are steps that can be followed if you are the target of a bully. List the steps and explain how each step will help you deal with bullying

4. In order to continuously provide quality patient care nurses must work in a safe environment. List the actions as discussed in your book that will ensure a safe work environment in health care facilities. 5. Discuss the pros and cons of mandatory overtime and floating assignments

Answer 1

ANSWERS :

2. In my work area of clinical setting where I had witnessed bullying by one of my senior member. Because of seniority the fellow person started bullying me in front of all the other staff members of the hospital, which should not be happened. The situation could not be happened and can be avoided by that person through their behavior and humanity towards me, by treating me as a fellow staff by showing some respect and professionalism.

3. The steps that will help in dealing with bullying are as follows :

* Self talk about being bullied by others which makes us experienced and feels like that it is not our fault

* Maintain a positive mental health status so that bullying cannot make you get depressed

* Exposing of the bully to the higher officials and other staff makes evident that you are enough strong to tackle the problem, etc.