- Title
- Deconstructing contributing factors to bullying and lateral violence in nursing using a postcolonial feminist lens
- Creator
- Croft, Rhonda; Cash, Penelope
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/162748
- Identifier
- vital:12708
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.5172/conu.2012.42.2.226
- Identifier
- ISBN:1037-6178
- Abstract
- Bullying and lateral violence is a reality in the workplace for many nurses and has been explored in nursing literature for at least three decades. Using a postcolonial feminist approach this paper examines what contributes to bullying and lateral violence in the nursing workplace by deconstructing the fi ndings from a British Columbia Nurses Union and Union of Psychiatric Nurses study. Theories of oppression and organizational context which have appeared in the literature serve to inform the discussion. A postcolonial lens provides an opportunity to come to grips with the insidiousness of bullying and lateral violence. An adaption of Phillips, Lawrence, and Hardy's (2004) framework is used to unpack discourses, actions, texts, and organizational practices to challenge taken-for-granted hegemonies in the workplace. Taking this different view has enabled new prisms of understanding to emerge from the contributing factors identifi ed in the study. Based on this analysis it is clear that bullying and lateral violence is deeply institutionalized. Nurses, managers, and organizations need to interrupt and interrogate the embeddedness of bullying and lateral violence in order to create a civil workplace. © eContent Management Pty Ltd.
- Publisher
- Routledge; an imprint of Taylor & Francis
- Relation
- Contemporary Nurse Vol. 42, no. 2 (2012), p. 226-242
- Rights
- Copyright © eContent Management Pty Ltd.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1110 Nursing; Bullying; Lateral violence; Nurse; Nursing; Postcolonial feminism; Unions
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