Citation

Cowell JM, Dewey Bergren M. J. Sch. Nurs. 2016; 32(5): 302-303.

Affiliation

University of Illinois at Chicago.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, National Association of School Nurses, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1059840516663955

PMID

27591265

Abstract

A quick search of The Journal of School Nursing website listed 96 manuscripts addressing student bullying and not 1 manuscript addressed school nurse bullying. The manuscripts illuminate factors associated with bullying, such as special education placement and sexual identify differences. The manuscripts also report the outcomes of bullying such as depression, anxiety, poor academic performance, and absenteeism. The violence reduction researchers also recommended a role for school nurses to prevent bullying and to ameliorate the consequences of bullying.
Bullying in schools is characterized by the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) position statement as intentional aggression or attack for the purpose of causing harm that is physical, verbal, or emotional (https://www.nasn.org/PolicyAdvocacy/PositionPapersandReports/NASNPositionStatementsFullView/tabid/462/smid/824/ArticleID/638/Default.aspx).

Bullying is associated with an imbalance of power between the perpetrator and the victim. Bullying is repeated over time (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009, 2011). Bullying at the NASN site refers to bullying among students, not school nurses.
A Nursing Outlook publication calls our attention to the prevalence and related issues to hospital-based nurse bullying. Costs to the …

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