Intimidating communication is definitely present within my work place. Student nurses and new staff have often been the victims of bullying that is coming from actual nursing and facility staff that have been on location for long periods of time. Such situations have been witnessed by not only the student nurses working within the facility, but also by the patients and senior staff members

Patients see the lateral violence first hand, as they watch older staff members hassle younger, newer nursing staff. The patients have helped the administrative staff narrow done the primary staff members who are the source of the lateral violence on the other newer nurses. Essentially two nurses in their middle fifties who have worked with the facility each for over five years feel the need to constantly harass new staff members and watch over them to a point which makes them feel insecure and uncomfortable within...
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