Lateral Violence Ayva Rodriguez Felician College Lateral Violence Violence in the workplace is defined by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as an act of violence whether it is a physical assault or a threat directed towards the coworker (Longton, 2014). Lateral violence can be verbal or nonverbal act of conflict towards the coworker to purposefully demean, diminish the victim’s stature, or humiliate them that might result in social exclusion and can lead to the
Bullying and lateral violence in nursing has become very infamous in the clinical setting. “Lateral violence refers to acts that occur between colleagues, where bullying is described as acts perpetrated by one in a higher level of authority and occur over time. The acts can be covert or overt acts of verbal or non-verbal aggression.” (American Nurses Association, 2015; Dellasega, 2009). The effects of lateral violence in the workplace often have negative outcomes. These outcomes not only adversely
Horizontal violence is a growing epidemic in the nursing profession especially among nursing students and newly registered nurses. In 2010 one out of six nurses had been impacted by horizontal violence, and this number is on the rise because seventy-eight percent of nurses that have been victimized have not reported horizontal violence to their manager, also sixty percent of all new nurses leave their job within the first six months due to violence in their work place (Hegal, 2010). Violent behaviors