Research Project on "Nurse VS Nurse Hostility"

[Su Wei]

Hi to everyone.I am a year-3 student nurse who is doing research on "Nurse VS Nurse Hostility" currently.I realise that it is a very common problem that happens among nurses,do you think so?I am pretty sure that it happens everywhere.The following are my questionnaires in order to complete my research survey.I have posted these questions online as part of my data collection.I hope all the members in this forum will participate in my questionnaires to allow me to find out the statistics of horizontal violence among nurses.:cheers:
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Instructions:
1. Please answer all the questions.
2. If you do not know how to answer a question, just go to the next one.
3. Please answer all questions as honestly as possible.
4. Answer according to your own opinion and experience.
5. Please kindly email the answers to me (suwei_ng5068@hotmail.com) or post your answers here.

SECTION A: Biographic information
1. How old are you?
(a) 21 to 30 years
(b) 31 to 40 years
(c) 41 years and above

2. What is your gender?
(a) Male
(b) Female

3. How many years of nursing experience since qualifying have you had?
(a) Less than 1 year
(b) 1 – 5 years
(c) 6 – 10 years
(d) 11 years and more

4. How many years of nursing experience have you had in this ward?
(a) Less than 1 year
(b) 1 – 5 years
(c) 6 – 10 years
(d) 11 years and more
5. What is your highest educational level?

(a) Diploma
(b) Degree
(c) Master
(d) Other (please specify................…...)

6. Please indicate how many staff nurses are on duty when you are working in the following shift.
Morning Shift (______)
Afternoon Shift (______)
Night Shift (______)

7. Which type of nursing discipline are you working in ?
Answer : …………………………..

SECTION B: Psychological and physical workplace violence
Horizontal violence is hostile and aggressive behaviour by individual or group members towards another member or groups of members of the larger group. This has been described as inter-group conflict. ( Duffy 1995). Horizontal violence is endemic in the workplace culture and it is an unacceptable and destructive phenomenon. All members of every workplace are urged to work together to address the issues of oppression and eliminate this unhealthy behaviour from the workplace.

8. Have you ever heard about “horizontal violence”?
(a) Yes
(b) No

9. In your opinion, do you think horizontal violence among nurses occurs in your workplace?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) Unsure

10. When does horizontal violence usually occur in your workplace?
(a) Morning shift
(b) Afternoon shift
(c) Night shift
(d) Not applicable

11. How concerned are you about horizontal violence in your current workplace?
(a) Not concerned
(b) Slightly concerned
(c) Concerned
(d) Very concerned

12. Have you abused your colleagues?
(a) Frequently
(b) Sometimes
(c) Seldom
(d) Never

13. Have you ever witnessed the abuse of a staff nurse by other nurse?
(a) Yes
(b) No

14. Have you been abused in your current workplace?
(a) Yes
(b) No

15. What type of abuse did you experience?
(a) Verbal abuse
(b) Emotional abuse
(c) Physical abuse
(d) Sexual abuse
(e) Other (please specify ……………………………………………………..)
(f) Not applicable

16. How did you respond to the abuse?
Please circle the relevant box(es).
Took no action (Yes,No)
Told the person to stop (Yes,No)
Told a colleague (Yes,No)
Sought counseling (Yes,No)
Requested for transferring to another ward (Yes,No)
Tried to pretend it never happened (Yes,No)
Told family/friends (Yes,No)
Report to Nurse Manager/Director of Nursing (Yes,No)
Other (please specify………………………………………………………) (Yes,No)

17. Did you report the incident of abuse that you went through?
(a) Yes(Reason :………………………………………………………………..)
(b) No (Reason :………………………………………………………………..)

18. What makes you as a staff nurse abuse another staff nurse in your workplace?
(a) Work overload
(b) Stress
(c) Other (please specify………………………………………………………..)
(d) Not applicable

19. What is the reason of you being abused by another staff nurse?
(a) Lack of knowledge
(b) Low self esteem
(c) Newly graduated
(d) Other (please specify………………………………………………………..)
(e) Not applicable

20. Which group of staff nurses has the highest risk to be victims of horizontal violence?
(a) Newly qualified staff nurses (during probation period)
(b) Junior staff nurses (working experience < 5 years)
(c) Senior staff nurses (working experience > 5 years)
(d) Other (please specify ……………………………………………………)

21. What are your suggestions to overcome horizontal violence in the nursing workplace?________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ___________________________

What is your nationality? (..................)

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION