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Essay Instructions: Here are some guidelines. We can use one to two more resources besides the article listed you need to read.

The idea of this assignment is for an awareness of the ongoing violence among health care providers which will affect all involved whether directly or indirectly.


1. What is your concept of intimidation, lateral violence, and aggression in the health care workplace? Describe your thoughts on Lamontagne’s article and why. How has these negative influences affected you and an example.
2. Describe a situation that would be classified in one of the categories provided by Lamontagne (must be from your work environment but without specific names or locations. I work in a outpatient rehab
3. What are the issues surrounding the situation, risk factors, attributes observed from all involved (staff, nurses, physicians, clients, families, and so forth; hidden, overt, subtle), ultimate adverse outcomes.
4. Propose a solution and plan of education for this situation.
5, Literature is required besides those used by Lamontagne.
6. Assignment is to be placed into safe assign on Blackboard.

The grade is calculated using the rubric and taking the percentage time 50 to derive the number of points out of 50 (For example, 87/100 x 50 = 43.5).

Article resource:

Lamontagne, C. (2010). Intimidation: a concept analysis. Nursing Forum, 45(1), 54-65.

Essay Instructions: One issue in Nursing is a paradox: Nursing is known as a caring profession, yet, it is not uncommon to find lateral violence among nurses in the workplace. Embree and White (2010) presented a literature review that analyzed this concept of lateral violence. Sheridan-Leos (2008) identified four theories as to why lateral violence occurs and described the effects of lateral violence. She shared actions that others have recommended to stop lateral violence. Sauer (2011) identified that 25 years of attempts made to eradicate this phenomenon in Nursing have not been successful. She presented a case study to demonstrate the extent of the problem.

Embree, J., & White, A. (2010). Concept analysis: nurse-to-nurse lateral violence. Nursing Forum, 45(3), 166-173. doi:10.1111/j.1744-6198.2010.00185.x

Sauer, P. (2011). Do nurses eat their young? Truth and consequences. Journal of Emergency Nursing, 38(1), 43-46. doi:10:1016/j.jen.2011.08.012

Sheridan-Leos, N. (2008). Professional issues: Understanding lateral violence in Nursing. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 12(3), 399-403. doi:10.1188/08.CJON.399-403.

For this assignment you write a 5-7 page paper using a total of five articles, three are listed here for you and you are to locate two additional articles. The additional articles must be peer-reviewed journal articles. Who should be responsible for eliminating lateral violence in the nursing workplace? State your position clearly in the thesis statement, and use the content in the articles to defend your position.

Essay Instructions: This is a critigue of a research article on lateral violence in nursing.
i will email the three files
1. The research pdf
2. The critique questions
3. MY question (will be used for the last question on critique questions