Abstract

Victims of incivility in nursing programs experience negative physical and mental effects and may respond to uncivil treatment with uncivil behavior in return. Incivility disrupts learning and leads to student and faculty attrition. Students may continue uncivil behavior as nurses, resulting in uncivil workplaces and patient harm. Faculty development is recommended to prepare nursing faculty to address incivility, but few studies examine the effectiveness of faculty development programs on faculty readiness. This project examined the effect of attending a journal club presentation on readiness of nursing faculty to address incivility in a BSN program. Faculty of a single BSN program were invited to participate; ten completed the project. Participants completed a pre-test survey prior to the presentation, and a post-test following the session and one month later. A one-way repeated measures ANOVA analyzed each of the three survey items. Scores on post-test items 1 and 2 did not show a statistically significant increase following the journal club session over pre-test scores, but item 3, which directly assessed faculty readiness to address incivility, increased at a nearly significant level, suggesting the journal club session may have increased faculty readiness to address incivility. Academic nurse leaders should work with faculty to refine the journal club and the program might be extended to other nursing schools to enable further study with a larger sample. Schools of nursing must address incivility to prepare future nurses for safe practice. A live journal club may be an effective faculty development strategy and should be explored further.

Kim Perry

Author Details

Kim E. Perry, DNP

Sigma Membership

Chi Rho

Lead Author Affiliation

Nebraska Methodist College, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Type

DNP Capstone Project

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Quality Improvement

Research Approach

Translational Research/Evidence-based Practice

Keywords:

Nursing Faculty, Uncivil Behavior, Incivility, Bullying, Faculty Development

Advisor

Kinschuh, Alice

Degree

DNP

Degree Grantor

Nebraska Methodist College

Degree Year

2019

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None: Degree-based Submission

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Self-submission

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