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  • Published on: 4 December 2020
    Protect future nurses

    Dear Editor,
    I write to express my views on the article “Prevalence of bullying in the nursing workplace and determinant factors: a nationwide cross-sectional Polish study survey” by Serafin, LI and Czarkowska-Pączek, B. Published on December 19, 2019. I found this article to be quite interesting and timely as I am a 4th year nursing student that may or may not be subjected to this in the near future. The article entailed pertinent information regarding the pervasiveness of Polish nurses bullying, the risk factors that influence bullying and their poor outcomes.
    According to the study, one may perceive that nurse bullying is indeed prevalent in Poland as more than half of the participants admitted having experienced some act of bullying on the job. Additionally, it is stated that seniority was notably congruent with workplace bullying. Similarly, in another article, Simons and Mawn (2010) notes that some nurse supervisors exhibit bullying by unjust scheduling and unmanageable nurse- patient workloads to which they classified as ‘structural bullying’. These actions not only adversely affect nurses but may ultimately impact the level of care a patient receives. As your article suggests, prolonged bullying can lead to physical and/ or psychological symptoms. The concept of ‘nurses eating their young’ is a relevant implication in nurse bullying. Nurse managers and other staff nurses tend to treat young graduate nurses unfairly as a strategy to prepare them for the...

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