Bushra Lubna, Huma Qureshi, Ramesh Kumar, Aijaz Ali, Shahzad Ali Khan, Mudassar Mushtaq Jawad Abbasi.
Perceived practices of harassment in nurses at their work place in public & private health sector of islamabad, pakistan.
Pak J Public Health Jan ;4(2):12-5.
Introduction: Violence at workplace has been recognized in all sectors, but those sectors in which females are working in larger numbers such as health and social services are at high potential particular risk. The aim of the study was to determine the factors inuencing their perception about harassment so the overall social status of nurses should be improved. In general nursing harassment among public health professionals at public and private sectors of Islamabad. Methods: The cross sectional study was conducted among 300 participants. Reliable self-administered questionnaires were used to collect the data after taking the ethical consideration to collect data from the participants. Data was then analyzed using statistical software SPSS 17.0. Results: The results showed during this survey mostly 63% respondents replied that they were verbal harassment during their working conditions, while some 17% observed physical harassment, few 16% were observed bullying and only 4% were observed the sexual harassment. A low level of association between Nurses sexually harassed. Most of participants were harassed but not recognized that is harassment and consider routine job problems which have no solution except quietness. There was no association between harassment and socio demographic characteristics. Variables such as type of harassment and type of harasser and types of overcome the situation ware found to be signicantly inuencing signicant result found that only low level of the participants found to be known about the policy and more over they are not aware to respond or procedure of proper incident recording of harassment although there is internal hospital policy exists. No Proper awareness about harassment it policy and their record of incident can effect motivation and work but also career decisions, rapport writing, relations with others and personal wellbeing. Conclusion: Those who are working in a nursing profession that is extremely on high risk of all kind of harassment. Sometime this situation cause feelings of uncertainty and reduced interest in nurse's job. Harassment less conducive environment essential part of ensuring high quality output for hospital. Harassed Nursing staff give poor quality, less efcient output for the organization. Interventions need to be implemented in order to reduce level of harassment among public and private hospitals of Pakistan. (Pak J Public Health 2014; 4(2):4-7 ) Keywords: Nurses harassment, bullying, physical violence, work place environment and health professional.
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