Nursing Students Speak: Personal Perceptions of Academic Incivility
Presenter Classification
Undergraduate Student
Presentation Type
Podium Presentation
Publication Date
4-20-2023
Start Date
20-4-2023 10:00 AM
End Date
20-4-2023 11:00 AM
Keywords
Nursing students, academic incivility, incivility victim, incivility witness
Abstract Type
Research
Abstract
Purpose: Incivility is rude or discourteous behavior that demonstrates a lack of respect for others. Nursing student-to-student incivility behaviors cause psychological and physiological distress for victims and witnesses. Study purposes: identify student lateral incivility behaviors; determine frequency of experienced incivility; and describe student coping strategies when experiencing incivility.
Aims: This study addressed five Quantitative Questions and four optional Qualitative Questions. This presentation will address the participant narrative responses to one Qualitative Question:
Describe an uncivil encounter you have experienced or witnessed in nursing education within the past 12 months.
Methods: A quantitative nonexperimental descriptive research design was used. Recruitment utilized nonprobability convenience sampling. National Student Nurses’ Association (NSNA) members were invited to participate through their NSNA member email addresses. Inclusion criteria: being a prelicensure registered nursing student aged 18 and over, ability to read and write English, and participation in a clinical nursing experience. Participants completed an anonymous online survey: electronic consent form, demographic sheet, Incivility in Nursing Education-Revised (INR-E) survey, and Ways of Coping (Revised)* Questionnaire. East Tennessee State University Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved this study. Data analysis: descriptive statistics and the Kruskal-Wallis Test (K-W).
Results: Surveys returned-990; Complete and analyzed-373; Narrative response to the optional qualitative question-286. Limitations: convenience sampling; sample bias and lack of equal student group representation due to self-enrollment; and results are not generalizable.
Conclusions: Nursing faculty are the main cause of academic incivility followed by university staff, clinical preceptors, and peers. All nurses need incivility education.
Nursing Students Speak: Personal Perceptions of Academic Incivility
Purpose: Incivility is rude or discourteous behavior that demonstrates a lack of respect for others. Nursing student-to-student incivility behaviors cause psychological and physiological distress for victims and witnesses. Study purposes: identify student lateral incivility behaviors; determine frequency of experienced incivility; and describe student coping strategies when experiencing incivility.
Aims: This study addressed five Quantitative Questions and four optional Qualitative Questions. This presentation will address the participant narrative responses to one Qualitative Question:
Describe an uncivil encounter you have experienced or witnessed in nursing education within the past 12 months.
Methods: A quantitative nonexperimental descriptive research design was used. Recruitment utilized nonprobability convenience sampling. National Student Nurses’ Association (NSNA) members were invited to participate through their NSNA member email addresses. Inclusion criteria: being a prelicensure registered nursing student aged 18 and over, ability to read and write English, and participation in a clinical nursing experience. Participants completed an anonymous online survey: electronic consent form, demographic sheet, Incivility in Nursing Education-Revised (INR-E) survey, and Ways of Coping (Revised)* Questionnaire. East Tennessee State University Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved this study. Data analysis: descriptive statistics and the Kruskal-Wallis Test (K-W).
Results: Surveys returned-990; Complete and analyzed-373; Narrative response to the optional qualitative question-286. Limitations: convenience sampling; sample bias and lack of equal student group representation due to self-enrollment; and results are not generalizable.
Conclusions: Nursing faculty are the main cause of academic incivility followed by university staff, clinical preceptors, and peers. All nurses need incivility education.