Addressing Bullying Through Interactive Video Vignettes

Abstract

Bullying in nursing education and practice is an ongoing and long-standing issue. Nursing students and new graduates are especially vulnerable to experiencing bullying. In this study, the student–faculty partnership team highlights one arts-based initiative within an overall project designed to support students, faculty members, and academic and practice leaders in addressing bullying in nursing education and nursing practice. We share our experience of creating interactive video vignettes (freely available at https://letsact.ca/interactive-video-vignettes/) that focus on the experience of bullying of a newly graduated registered nurse (RN), an RN witness, an experienced RN who engages in bullying behaviour, and the nurse leader who receives a bullying complaint. In previous work, we focused on bullying from the target’s perspective. In this manuscript, we highlight others with a role to play in bullying encounters as well as the context in which bullying is enacted in nursing.