The Causes of Disruptive Behaviors in Nursing Workforce: A Systematic Review

The first essential step to addressing disruptive behaviors is to gain anunderstanding of the causes of disruptive behaviors in healthcareorganizations. This review article was conducted to gain an understanding ofthe causes of disruptive behaviors in the nursing workforce. The University ofYork center for Reviewers and Dissemination Guidance approach was usedfor searching five databases (PubMed, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Medline andScience direct) with 3main category key words from 2000 to Nov 2014. Lastly,12 full texts were analyzed for responding to the research question. The resultsare explained in four categories; individual, organizational, environmental andsocial factors. This study showed that disruptive behaviors are a complexphenomenon, and the causes that contribute to disruptive behaviors typicallyoperate at multiple levels and suggested that there are many factors behind adisruptive behavior and the escalation of the situation.

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Causes , Disruptive Behaviors , Nursing Workforce , Systematic Review