Title

Nursing Program Attributes Contributing to a Culture of Civility.

Authors

Moore, Wendy; Palerino, Andrea; Pawloski, Katie

Abstract

Background: Faculty-to-faculty incivility is an ongoing issue in nursing education. Negative effects for faculty experiencing incivility include both physical and psychological distress. Research related to faculty-to-faculty incivility has focused on the incidence and effects of incivility. This study examined nursing program attributes that contribute to a culture of workplace civility. Method: The Work-place Incivility/Civility Survey was used to collect data for this mixed-methods study. Group means and analysis of variances were used to analyze quantitative data, and thematic analysis was conducted based on qualitative data. Results: Number of program faculty, location of the program, teaching environment, and diversity of faculty were attributes that affected civility in the work-place. Conclusion: Nursing programs with fewer than 10 and more than 50 faculty, programs in the western United States, programs with greater faculty diversity, and online programs had the highest level of workplace civility. [J Nurs Educ. 2025;64(1):21–26.]

Subjects

UNITED States; CORPORATE culture; WORK; DATA analysis; T-test (Statistics); RESEARCH funding; WORK environment; PEER relations; QUESTIONNAIRES; CONTENT analysis; NURSING education; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; VIOLENCE in the workplace; THEMATIC analysis; AGGRESSION (Psychology); COLLEGE teacher attitudes; RESEARCH methodology; ANALYSIS of variance; STATISTICS; COMPARATIVE studies; OFFENSIVE behavior; CULTURAL pluralism; EXPERIENTIAL learning

Publication

Journal of Nursing Education, 2025, Vol 64, Issue 1, p21

ISSN

0148-4834

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.3928/01484834-20240827-04