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Nursing faculty academic incivility: perceptions of nursing students and faculty

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, December 2017
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Title
Nursing faculty academic incivility: perceptions of nursing students and faculty
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BMC Medical Education, December 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12909-017-1096-8
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Joshua K. Muliira, Jansi Natarajan, Jacoba van der Colff

Abstract

Incivility in nursing education can adversely affect the academic environment, the learning outcomes, and safety. Nursing faculty (NF) and nursing students (NS) contribute to the academic incivility. Little is known about the extent of NF academic incivility in the Middle East region. This study aimed at exploring the perceptions and extent of NF academic incivility in an undergraduate nursing program of a public university in Oman. A cross sectional survey was used to collect data from 155 undergraduate NS and 40 NF about faculty academic incivility. Data was collected using the Incivility in Nursing Education Survey. The majority of NS and NF had similar perceptions about disruptive faculty behaviors. The incidence of faculty incivility was low (Mean = 1.5). The disruptive behaviors with the highest incidence were arriving late for scheduled activities, leaving schedule activities early, cancelling scheduled activities without warning, ineffective teaching styles and methods, and subjective grading. The most common uncivil faculty behaviors reported by participants were general taunts or disrespect to other NF, challenges to other faculty knowledge or credibility, and general taunts or disrespect to NS. The relatively low level of NF academic incivility could still affect the performance of some students, faculty, and program outcomes. Academic institutions need to ensure a policy of zero tolerance to all academic incivility, and regular monitoring and evaluation as part of the prevention strategies.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 107 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 12%
Lecturer 12 11%
Student > Bachelor 10 9%
Researcher 8 7%
Student > Master 6 6%
Other 17 16%
Unknown 41 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 36 34%
Social Sciences 9 8%
Psychology 7 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 <1%
Other 3 3%
Unknown 45 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 14 December 2017.
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#14,960,787
of 23,011,300 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#2,169
of 3,366 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#252,637
of 439,212 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#83
of 103 outputs
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