Nurse Disrespect and Abuse Toward Laboring and Child-Birthing Women.

Background: Disrespect and abuse of laboring and child-birthing women in healthcare is a global problem that violates a woman's right to respectful care. The abuse can be life-threatening and jeopardizes their rights to health, bodily integrity, and freedom from discrimination. This study aimed to understand the factors influencing nurse and midwife disrespect and abuse of child-birthing women in healthcare settings.

Patient Abuse in Healthcare: A Theoretical Synthesis.

Patient abuse in healthcare is an emerging phenomenon in need of explanation and further analysis. Preventing abusive incidents in healthcare requires identifying structural imbalances that make mistreatment of vulnerable individuals possible. A theory synthesis of the vicious violence triangle and the socioecological model provides a framework to investigate factors that influence nurses' abusive behavior toward patients in hospitals.