Incivility of staff nurses towards Baccalaureate Nursing Students of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, 2020

Nursing students usually experience incivility in the clinical environment and in relation to nurses. The aim of this study was to determine the incivility of staff nurses towards baccalaureate nursing students of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences.

In this descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study, 330 undergraduate Nursing students of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences were enrolled in the census method in 2021. To collect information, a two-part questionnaire was used, the first part of which included demographic characteristics and the second part was the Iranian version of Uncivil Behavior in Clinical Nursing Education tool. Data analysis was performed by SPSS software version 24 and t-test and analysis of variance.

Based on the results, in general, the mean of non-civility behaviors was 11.76±10.60. There was a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of incivility behaviors towards students with age, academic semester, internship department and grade point average (P<0.05).

Based on the findings, students reported the most incivil behaviors of nurses in the dimension of deprivation behaviors such as being ignored and not being allowed to participate in care decisions, which shows the difference between the actual and expected views of nursing students about Support and respect in the clinical setting.