Abstract
Psychiatric nurses run a high risk of being exposed to aggression. This model was
developed based on the researcher’s minor dissertation, titled: “The lived
experience by psychiatric nurses of aggression amongst colleagues”, which found
that psychiatric nurses experience aggression in the workplace amongst their
colleagues.
The purpose of the study was to develop a model, as a framework of reference, for
psychiatric nurses to manage experienced aggression from colleagues in the
workplace. The objectives of the study were to describe a model for psychiatric
nurses to manage experienced aggression from colleagues in the workplace, and
the implementation and evaluation of the model for psychiatric nurses to manage
experienced aggression from colleagues in the workplace.
The research design was theory-generative, qualitative, exploratory, descriptive
and contextual in nature. The model development comprised of four steps; Step
One consisted of concept analysis of the comprised identification, definition and
classification of the central and related concepts. The central concept of this
research study was identified as “the facilitation of self-management”.
Step Two consisted of the description of the relationship between the concepts. In
Step Three, the model to facilitate the self-management of experienced aggression
amongst colleagues in the workplace was described. The model’s structure and
process were discussed. The structure of the model was described based on its
purpose, assumptions and the context. The process of the model was described in
three phases: the relationship-, working- and termination phase.
Step Four entailed the implementation of the model by means of a one-day
workshop where the model was presented to the participants. Thereafter, the
psychiatric nurses implemented the model in their workplace. Participants were...
D.Cur. (Psychiatric Nursing)