Bullying among Nursing Intern Students: Factors and Consequences

Abstract

Background: Bullying is worldwide endlessly experienced by nurses from education to workplace, nursing intern students are highly exposed to training intimidation. Design: An exploratory design was tracked. Aim and Objectives: To recognize factors and consequences about the clinical training bullying as experienced by faculty of nursing intern students. Methods: A purposive selection method was utilized to enroll 242 intern students who registered, trained in 2019-2020 academic year and were bullied. Results: The findings indicated that (84.6%) of faculty of nursing intern students were bullied. The highest experienced mean form of bullying was “training related bullying” (=0.91). The highest percentage of students (30%) considered unit head nurse was the bully, less than (20%) of students reported bullying if experienced or witnessed it. There were statistically significant relations between experiencing of bullying students’ age, social status, educational level before enrollment to faculty, university of graduation and current health status. Conclusion: the widely held of interns experienced many forms of under-reported bullying with negative effect and consequences on their well-being. Bullying should be addressed firstly in study years before graduation, then at healthcare working settings.