Bullying among Nursing Students in UiTM Puncak Alam during Clinical Placement

Abstract

Workplace violence among healthcare workers is a well-known issue internationally. This research seeks to identify UiTM nursing students’ experience of bullying during clinical placement. A cross-sectional study was conducted using the questionnaire, Student Experience of Bullying during Clinical Placement (SEBDCP), among 182 nursing students. The finding showed that 25.3% of students were bullied, 37.9% were unsure about it, and the rest never been bullied. Also, the violence mainly came from patients (58.2%). For future suggestions, organisations should emphasise knowledge regarding bullying and develop bullying prevention strategies to minimise the adverse effect of the consequences of bullying on nursing student’s psychological. Keywords: workplace violence; horizontal violence; bullying; nursing eISSN: 2398-4287© 2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v5i15.2465.