The author of this article reviews the literature on lateral violence in nursing. This concept was first discussed over three decades ago. Bullying and Incivility are concepts similar to lateral violence that have become increasingly utilized in nursing research and scholarly writing. The research on these concepts suggests that the behavior still exists in the nursing workplace, and that few interventions have been developed to change the behaviors or the power dynamics that cause them. Suggestions are included to change practice and scholarship in this area.
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 August 2026.
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#22,010,906
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Outputs from Nursing Science Quarterly
#110
of 260 outputs
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#242,212
of 396,412 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nursing Science Quarterly
#1
of 5 outputs
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