Abstract
This issue of Workplace Health & Safety contains a Continuing Nursing Education Module for 1.0 contact hour of continuing nursing education credit will be awarded by AAOHN upon successful completion of the posttest and evaluation.
A certificate will be awarded when the following requirements are met by the participant: (1) Participant logs on to the AAOHN LMS website at www.aaohn.org/education/online-learning-center and enrolls in the course ($10 members; $15 non-members); (2) The completed posttest and course evaluation are entered online at http://www.aaohn.org by January 2023; (3) A score of 75% (6 correct answers) is achieved by the participant.
Upon completion of this lesson, the occupational health nurse will be able to:
Define psychological violence in the workplace.
Describe the perception of psychological violence in academic medicine.
The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Inc. is an Approved Provider of continuing nursing education by the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Inc. is additionally approved as a CNE provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing (#CEP9283).
Contact hours received for successful completion of the posttest and evaluation may be used for relicensure, certification, and re-certification.
Normal workday issues Bad manners Examples of psychological violence Reserved for unpopular employees
It was a qualitative study It did not involve patients or required medical treatment The researchers used secondary data The study participants were considered, ‘third parties’.
Literature research and work-related discrimination Participants’ years of work experience Participants’ educational background History of psychological violence at the workplace
In case participants denied taking part in the interviews To keep accurate records of the interviews which assists in data analysis Because there was no approval for the study from the ethics committee To enforce the gravity of the information
Burnout Bullying Anxiety Constant pressure to perform
Intentional Harmful Nonessential Unwanted
Male Female 50 percent male and 50 percent female 90 percent male and 10 percent female
Everyone in the workplace bears the responsibility to initiate change Only those affected by psychological violence should initiate change The culture of academic medicine has always viewed psychological violence as a way to instill discipline Men and women are affected equally by psychological violence in the workplace.