Exposing situations mobbing of the nurses in Turkey

Introduction: Mobbing is an uncomforting and unsettling behavior experienced among the health staff in work place for a while. The hospitals are accepted as an environment where emotional annoyance events are experienced at ineligible rates. The nurses have been exposed to mobbing at advanced level for the reasons such as intense and bad working conditions, impossibilities, bouts, insufficient wages and salaries particularly in state organizations, academic career and injustice about promotion. Methods: This research was carried out as descriptively with the aim of determining the exposing situations to mobbing of the nurses working in Erzincan State Hospital in Turkey. The context of the study consisted of 120 nurses working in the hospital at the dates October-December 2008. The choice of the sampling was not applied and 94 nurses accepting to participate in the study and working at that date were included in the study. The data were collected by means of nurse's introductory form and mobbing behaviors scale. Parametric and non-parametric tests were used in statistical analysis of the data. Results: It was determined that age averages of the nurses agreeing to participate in the research was 31.04±4.45, and 73.4% of them in 26-35 age group, %41.5 of the nurses was the associate's degree, 78.7% of them was married and 30.4% of have children. It was found that there was statistically significant distinction among education level in the nurses and professional working year, the department worked and mobbing behaviors. Scale scores according to data and type of working (p<0.05). Conclusion: This situation affecting the nurses should be examined and for administrative support and a better working medium for the nurses, some policies should be put forward and these policies should be taken into effect.