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Title

An educational intervention to promote civility in nursing: a pilot study.

Authors

Murray, Robin Elaine

Abstract

Objectives: Nursing students are ill equipped to handle uncivil situations in the workplace. The purpose of this project was to determine if providing students with education about identifying and addressing incivility would alter how students perceived their ability to recognize and address uncivil situations when encountered. Methods: This pre–post-test comparative pilot study used the Generalized Self Efficacy Scale along with The Confidence Scale to measure student self-efficacy and confidence before and after the receipt of educational interventions on recognizing and addressing uncivil behaviors. Results: The statistical analysis reveals an increase in both self-efficacy and confidence scores in recognizing and addressing uncivil behaviors following the educational interventions (p=0.000, p<0.001, respectively). Conclusions: Educating pre-licensure nursing students about incivility increases self-efficacy and confidence levels in pre-licensure nursing students to recognize and address uncivil behaviors when encountered.

Subjects

MIDWEST (U.S.); PILOT projects; STATISTICS; OFFENSIVE behavior; CONFIDENCE; EFFECT sizes (Statistics); SELF-efficacy; UNDERGRADUATES; PRE-tests & post-tests; COMPARATIVE studies; CONCEPTUAL structures; T-test (Statistics); QUESTIONNAIRES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; STATISTICAL hypothesis testing; NURSING students; DATA analysis; EDUCATIONAL outcomes

Publication

International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, 2020, Vol 17, Issue 1, p1

ISSN

1548-923X

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1515/ijnes-2020-0022