You are doing a clinical rotation in a psychiatric–mental health facility and observe an interaction between two nurses. You notice that the nurses are becoming aggressive and antagonistic to one another. What is this kind of behavior known as?
A) Passive-aggressiveness
B) Horizontal violence
C) Passive-assertiveness
D) Vertical violence
Ans: B
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Nurses should be alert to the warning signs of increasing job-related stress. Such signs may take the form of horizontal violence. Horizontal violence refers to a variety of unkind, discourteous, antagonistic interactions that occur between people at the same organizational hierarchy (Longo, 2007). It is often described as divisive, infighting, backbiting, and off-putting. It can be manifested by anger or negativity that one nurse directs at another nurse.
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