The effects of incivility on student nurses in the clinical setting: A grounded theory approach.

Aim: To use a grounded theory approach to explore and understand the encounters of undergraduate nursing students with incivility in the clinical setting so that data-informed strategies for addressing this counterproductive behavior could be developed.

Background: Nurses are being called upon to fill ever-increasing responsibilities associated with expanding roles in different specialties within healthcare. One issue that has developed in this high-pressure environment is an increase in incivility in the workplace that spills over into the clinical training environment.