Date of Conferral

2022

Degree

Ph.D.

School

Nursing

Advisor

Janet Long

Abstract

Incivility in nursing education can affect morale, adversely affect patient care, or cause nurses to leave the profession. Bullying, rude comments, and disruptive behaviors are all examples of incivility. These may be perceived as lower in schools like Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), where students share the same or similar racial or ethnic background. The purpose of this study was to determine if the perceived levels of incivility experienced in nursing school differ between African American or Black nurses who attended HBCUs and African American or Black nurses who attended non-HBCUs, where the population of nursing students may have been more diverse. A comparative, quantitative research design was guided by Leininger’s culture care diversity and universality theory. The uncivil behavior in clinical nursing education (UBCNE), a valid and reliable 5-point Likert scale survey that measures perceived levels of incivility, was administered online to 122 African American or Black nurses (17 HBCU and 105 non-HBCU) who graduated in the previous 5 years. Results of an independent t-test revealed that nurses who attended HBCUs perceived lower levels of incivility (M = 13.2, df 16), than African American or Black nurses who attended non-HBCUs (M = 17.8, df = 104, p = 0.048). Potential implications for positive social change that could arise from this study’s findings include developing interventions for promoting civility through cultural awareness and exchange in all nursing education programs. Recommendations for future research include administering the UBCNE to larger populations and examining perceptions of incivility levels among nursing students of other racial or ethnic groups. Additional research should be conducted to analyze if culture or cultural awareness are factors in decreasing the perceptions of the levels of incivility in nursing education.

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