Table 1 Studies included in the review
Author(s) country | Setting or context | Aim(s) of the study | Design and sample |
|---|---|---|---|
Curtis, Bowen et al. [19] Australia | Students enrolled in one university nursing program | Student nurses experience of horizontal violence | Non-randomised cross sectional sample with open ended responses |
| Â | Â | Â | 152 Student nurses |
Corney [20] Australia | Registered nurses | Nurses experience of aggression | Qualitative research Heideggerian methodology. |
| Â | Â | Â | Sample 2 nurses |
Chairella and McInnes [43] Australia | Nursing case law | Explore legal and ethical frameworks that inform nursing practice | Review of case law 1904–2002 pertaining to nursing |
| Â | Â | Â | 180 cases reviewed |
Farrell [21] Australia | Registered nurses | Nurses experience of aggression in the clinical setting | Sequential mixed method |
| Â | Â | Â | Non-randomised cross sectional survey. Sample 270 |
|  |  |  | Qualitative component -Grounded theory. Sample 29 nurses (n = 7 university lecturers, 20 clinical staff & 7 university lecturers) |
Fasolino and Snyder, [22] United States | Nurses in 1 hospital | Relationships between nurse practice environment and medication errors | Non-randomised cross sectional survey |
| Â | Â | Â | Sample 248 RNs |
Gunnarsdo’ttir et al., [23] Iceland | Nurses in one hospital | Aspects of nurses’ work environment linked with job outcomes and assessments of quality of care | Non-randomised cross sectional survey |
| Â | Â | Â | Sample 695 nurses |
Hanrahan et al., [24] United States | Psychiatric registered nurses 67 general hospitals | Relationship between nurse practice environment and adverse events | Non-randomised cross sectional survey linked to secondary hospital data |
| Â | Â | Â | Sample 353 |
Tervo - Heikkinen et al., [25] | Registered nurses 34 inpatient wards | Relationship between nurse’s work environment and nursing outcomes | Non-randomised cross sectional survey |
| Â | Â | Â | Sample 664 |
Higgins and MacIntosh [26] Canada | OR nurses | Nurses perceptions of physician perpetrated abuse | Qualitative research |
|  |  |  | Purposive sample from cohort of randomly selected nurses n = 10 |
Hutchinson, Vickers et al. [7] Australia | Registered and Enrolled nurses | Nature and extent of bullying in the Australian nursing workplace | Qualitative research |
|  |  |  | Convenience sample n = 26 nurses |
Institute for Safe Medication Practices [27] United States | Health care providers | Not specified | Non-randomised cross-sectional Sample N = 2,095 |
| Â | Â | Â | (1,565 nurses, 354 pharmacists, 176 others) |
Jackson, Peters et al. [28] Australia | Registered and Enrolled nurses | Experiences of nurse whistleblowers | Qualitative research Narrative Inquiry |
|  |  |  | Non-randomised convenience sample n = 18 |
Lyndon, [29] United States | Registered nurses (RNs), physicians (MDs), and CNMs 2 hospitals | Interpersonal, structural, and social processes affecting individual and collective among nurses and physicians | Qualitative research Grounded theory research |
| Â | Â | Â | Purposive sample |
| Â | Â | Â | 19 providers (12 RNs, 2 CNMs, and 5 MDs.) Observation of 10 of the 19 participants (7 RNs, 2 MDs, and 1 CNM). |
Mallidou et al., [30] Canada | Nurses in 12 hospitals | Relationships and mechanisms between nursing specialty subcultures and selected patient outcomes | Non-randomised cross sectional and secondary data analysis |
| Â | Â | Â | Sample 1937 nurses |
McKenna, Smith et al. [31] New Zealand | Nurses registered to practice in the previous year | Horizontal violence experiences of newly registered nurses | Non-randomised cross sectional survey with open ended responses |
| Â | Â | Â | Sample 584 Registered Nurses |
MacKusick and Minick [32] United States | Registered nurses | Identify the factors influencing the decision of RNs to leave clinical nursing practice | Phenomenological design |
|  |  |  | Purposive sample n = 10 |
McCusker et al., [33] Canada | Nurses in 13 units in one hospital | Confirm sub-scales from (NWI-R) assess the nursing work environment | Non-randomised cross sectional |
| Â | Â | Â | Sample 283 |
Randle [34] United Kingdom | Student nurses in one program | Influence of pre-registration experiences on self-esteem | Qualitative research - Grounded theory |
| Â | Â | Â | 56 students at commencement, 39 at conclusion |
Rice Simpson and Lyndon, [35] United States | Midwives obstetric nurses one metropolitan area | Describe how nurses would respond in common clinical situations | Non-randomised cross-sectional survey with open ended response |
| Â | Â | Â | Sample 704 |
Roche 2010 [44] Australia | 94 nursing wards in 21 hospitals between 2004 and 2006 | Relationships between nurses’ self-rated perceptions of violence, and the nursing working environment and patient outcomes | Non-randomised cross-sectional survey and secondary analysis of data |
| Â | Â | Â | Sample 3,099 |
Rosenstein, [15] United States | Health workers 142 acute hospitals | Relationships between nurse-physician relationships and nurse satisfaction and retention | Non-randomised cross-sectional survey |
| Â | Â | Â | Sample 2562 |
|  |  |  | Nurses = 1615 |
|  |  |  | Physicians = 389 |
|  |  |  | Executives = 104 |
Rosenstein and O’Daniel [8] United States | Large multi facility health care network | Investigate prevalence and impact of disruptive behaviour on clinical outcomes | Non-randomised cross-sectional survey with open ended responses |
| Â | Â | Â | Sample 1509 (1091 RN, 402 physicians, 16 administrators survey first distributed in 2003 and ongoing |
Rosenstein and O’Daniel [36] United States | Clinical staff in Four VHA regions | Significance of disruptive behaviour on communication and collaboration and impact on patient care | Non-randomised cross-sectional survey with open ended responses |
| Â | Â | Â | Sample 4,500 participants completed survey (2,846 nurses, 944 physicians, 40 executives, 700 not specified) |
Rosenstein and O’Daniel [36] United States | Staff in large metropolitan academic medical centre | Disruptive behaviours in peri operative services | Non-randomised cross-sectional survey with open ended responses |
| Â | Â | Â | Sample 244 professional staff (82 MDs, 71 RNs, 24 nurse anesthetists, 18 surgical technologists, and 49 others) |
Sofield and Salmond [37] United States | Nurse in three-hospital health system | Nurses experiences of verbal abuse and association with intent to leave | Randomised cross sectional survey |
| Â | Â | Â | Sample 465 |
Simons and Mawn [38] United States | Newly registered nurses in one state | Investigation of bullying among newly registered nurses | Non-randomised cross sectional survey with open ended response |
| Â | Â | Â | Sample 511 |
Strauss [39] United States | CRNAs in one state | Investigated nurses exposure to 20 types of bullying behaviour by physicians | Randomized cross-sectional survey with open ended responses |
| Â | Â | Â | Sample size not specified |
Smith [40] United States | Peri-operative nurses | Relationship between bullying and patient outcomes in terms of five surgical never events | Non-randomised cross sectional survey |
| Â | Â | Â | Sample 853 |
Walrath, Dang et al. [41] United States | Registered nurses 1 hospital | Nurses experiences of disruptive clinician behaviour | Qualitative study |
| Â | Â | Â | Purposive sample of 96 RNs |
Weisbrod [42] United States | Students nurses one university program | Perceptions of violence in the clinical setting | Mixed method |
| Â | Â | Â | Non-randomised cross sectional survey with open ended responses & focus groups. Sample 37 |