A Qualitative Descriptive Study: The Realities of Workplace Bullying

This chapter decribes the narratives of individuals experiencing bullying in their workplace, significant to their understanding of solutions, perspectives, and attitudes toward bullying behaviors. Previous research outlined contributing factors-change in leadership, rigid bureaucracy, negative workplace culture pitting nurses against the nurse, loss of space, nursing the patients in hallways, and low healthcare quality linked to inadequate staffing. Develops a cost-benefit argument for organizations to deal with the issue and comments that despite the overwhelming benefits, few organizations appear to have workplace bullying on their agenda. Self-reported symptoms of healthcare professionals include depression, loneliness, isolation, and dread, as well as feelings of despair, helplessness, and job loss. The prior research's limitations prevent managers from finding effective solutions to the bullying problem. Bullying ought to be given the same legal standing as workplace violence and harassment. Nobody should have to endure the negative effects of being bullied at work by people of all ages. Findings suggest is no longer no longer fixed to older nurses eating their young, but the reversal is true of younger nurses skillfully suggesting that older nurses no longer belong in the workforce, asking them about their retirement plans. Future implications significant to this study are upcoming healthcare staffing.