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Table 2 Cognitive rehearsal program contents (10 common types of specific incivility)

From: Effectiveness of educational intervention and cognitive rehearsal on perceived incivility among emergency nurses: a randomized controlled trial

Session

Topics

Scenario

Methods

1

Communication without incivility

Instruction for cognitive practice and communication without incivility

Lecture

2

Nonverbal allusion

The nurse asks another nurse for help calculating the medication, but her colleague, standing nearby grinning and rolling her eyes, rolls hers as well

Expression of scenario

Communication

Role playing

Feedback and evaluation

3

Retention of information

The reporting nurse does not give the following shift nurse important patient care information

Expression of scenario

Communication

Role playing

Feedback and evaluation

4

Weakening efforts and motivation

A senior nurse says to the new graduate nurse who keeps making mistakes, “I don’t think you’re cut out for nursing.”

Expression of scenario

Communication

Role playing

Feedback and evaluation

5

Humiliate

A senior nurse notes every mistake a new nurse has made in the shift notes

Expression of scenario

Communication

Role playing

Feedback and evaluation

6

Gossiping

A nurse is talking behind someone who is not present

Expression of scenario

Communication

Role playing

Feedback and evaluation

7

Subversion

A nurse is busy with his car accident patient. His colleague refuses to answer the new nurse’s patient inquiry

Expression of scenario

Communication

Role playing

Feedback and evaluation

8

Lack of respect for privacy

A nurse asks another colleague why he/she went to the manager’s office

Expression of scenario

Communication

Role playing

Feedback and evaluation

9

Verbal disrespect

An experienced nurse says to a newly graduated nurse, “I really don’t know how you managed to graduate?”

Expression of scenario

Communication

Role playing

Feedback and evaluation

10

Physical violence

The ward manager yells at her/his colleague for requesting the wrong medication for a patient and throws the medication at him/her

Expression of scenario

Communication

Role playing

Feedback and evaluation