Abstract
Incivility in the population has become of great interest within the past decade, particularly in the wake of the school massacre in Columbine and the recent movie theatre mass murder in Aurora, Colorado. While citizens struggle to make sense of these violent behaviors, higher education officials are perhaps most vested in exploring the causes, displays, and solutions to uncivil behavior among both faculty and students. The effects of incivility, whether classified as minor disruptions or major violence, may affect the student nurse and impede his or her progress and ability to become an empathic nurse, which is a goal of nursing education. Academic incivility may contribute to bullying in the workplace, which has been identified as a cause of attrition and contributes to the national nursing shortage. This article describes the effects of uncivil behavior on nursing faculty and students and the effect this may have on the nursing workforce.
Highlights
The ability to foster an atmosphere of civility on college campus is often elusive [1]
This article describes the effects of uncivil behavior on nursing faculty and students and the effect this may have on the nursing workforce
This is of great interest because according to a study conducted by JM Hall (2004), nursing faculty themselves may create a situation that dehumanizes nursing students, leading to student defensiveness, anxiety, and inability to moderate angry feelings
Summary
The ability to foster an atmosphere of civility on college campus is often elusive [1]. Clark and Springer (2007) list various ways that they encounter incivility, most of them being non-physically violent but considered uncivil : arriving to class late, leaving class early, refusing to answer questions, rudely contesting test answers, and being unprepared for class While many factors related to academic incivility have been cited, including desensitization to violence via media, inadequate secondary school education, and absent or inadequate parenting, the faculty has rarely viewed themselves as a source of conflict [5] This is of great interest because according to a study conducted by JM Hall (2004), nursing faculty themselves may create a situation that dehumanizes nursing students, leading to student defensiveness, anxiety, and inability to moderate angry feelings. Uncivil behavior by nursing faculty is morally distressing and confusing to students, who are taught through curriculum that nursing is a profession that is founded on the principle of caring [5]
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