Workplace bullying is a serious problem affecting nursing. Abusive workplaces result in lack of job satisfaction, poor retention, and adverse patient outcomes. The purpose of this article is to present the history of this problem in nursing and offer potential solutions.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To identify critical elements of the major shift in cancer nursing practice, education, and the expectations of professional nursing immediately following World War II that were precursors of contemporary oncology nursing preparation and practice. DATA SOURCES General healthcare, medical, and nursing literature, particularly in the American Journal of Nursing, published aft...

The history of nursing education has often been portrayed as the subordination of nursing to medicine. Yet, as scholars are increasingly acknowledging, the professional boundaries between medicine and nursing were fluid in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when both scientific knowledge and systems of nurse training were in flux. Through its focus on the role of medical practitioner...

This article focuses on the function of Norwegian nursing homes. A brief history of institutionalisation of older people in Norway is presented. An expressed task for Norwegian nursing homes is active treatment, and even though the “Guarantee of dignity” was implemented from January 2011, there are proofs that the rights of the residents are constantly violated. Another task for Norwegian nursi...

The objective of this study was to reconstitute the history of the creation of the Nursing Undergraduate Course at the Medical Sciences School, University of Campinas, occurred in 1978, through an unofficial history, due to the insufficiency of pertinent documental sources. Nurses who participated directly and actively in this process were the subjects of the research. The School of Nursing, le...

Depression is a common, and often undetected, psychiatric disorder in geriatric care home residents. Reminiscence, an independent nursing therapy used by a variety of health and social care professionals, can prevent or reduce depression. This practice development project explored the use of reminiscence life history books as an interpersonal therapeutic tool with 3 depressed care-home resident...

The history of nursing in South Africa is one to which only an historian of ability can do justice. This unpromising topic-at least to South African eyes-encapsulates all the contradictions and ambiguities of life in a complex and divided society. Modem professional nursing developed late in South Africa, only after the discovery of diamonds attracted to disease-ridden Kimberley South Africa's ...

The history of nursing in South Africa is one to which only an historian of ability can do justice. This unpromising topic-at least to South African eyes-encapsulates all the contradictions and ambiguities of life in a complex and divided society. Modem professional nursing developed late in South Africa, only after the discovery of diamonds attracted to disease-ridden Kimberley South Africa's ...

the organization of nursing in different types of hospital is studied. Margaret Connor Versluysen points out that to study nursing history without the "amateur" medical work carried out by women is misleading. She discusses the response to and limitations of Ehrenreich and English's Witches, midwives and nurses, and stresses the importance of power differences between the sexes in analysing the...

nursing is a universal health care necessity. nursing profession, similar to the other medical professions, is responsible to maintain public health promotion, prevent diseases, and also care and rehabilitate client, family and the soci¬ety. the inher-ent nature of nursing is respect for moral values and human rights. however, clinical ethical dilem¬mas occur for nurses at all levels, not alway...