Workplace bullying among healthcare professionals in Sweden: a descriptive study.

Workplace bullying is a taboo event which occurs worldwide, although the prevalence varies significantly between and within countries. Nurses have been regarded an occupational risk group for bullying at the work place. Bullying in health and social care contexts is sometimes reported as frequent and, other times, as not occurring, which sparked our interest in mapping the occurrence of bullying in the health and social care system in Sweden.

Managing bullying in Swedish workplace settings: A concealed and only partially acknowledged problem.

Aim: The purpose of this article was to explore workplace routines and strategies for preventing and managing bullying in the context of health and elderly care.

Background: Bullying is a serious problem in workplaces with consequences for the individual, the organisation and the quality of care.

Method: Open-ended interviews were conducted with 12 participants, including managers and specialists within one hospital and three municipalities.

Preventive Strategies and Processes to Counteract Bullying in Health Care Settings: Focus Group Discussions.

The aim of the present study was to explore preventive strategies and processes to counteract bullying in workplaces. Data were collected by individual interviews and focus group discussions at one hospital and two nursing home wards for elderly, a total of 29 participants. In the analysis of the interviews we were inspired by constructivist grounded theory.

School Nurses Avoid Addressing Child Sexual Abuse.

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a global public health problem with major consequences for the individual child and society. An earlier Swedish study showed that the school nurses did not initially talk about nor mention CSA as one form of child abuse. For the child to receive adequate support, the disclosure is a precondition and is dependent on an available person prepared to listen.

Development, implementation and evaluation of a process to prevent and combat workplace bullying.

Aim: Our objective was to develop and implement an intervention program in collaboration with workplace personnel, to evaluate the process as a vehicle to prevent and combat bullying.

Methods: The project emanates from a community-based participatory approach. We obtained data from individual and focus group interviews.