Lateral Violence: The Real Nurse Curse

Education and accountability are paramount when tackling LV. The education must equip supervisors and managers with tools to effectively deal with bullies, witnesses, and victims of LV. This project is being reproduced in our hospital and will spread system wide. The benefits of reducing LV are far reaching and include patient safety and satisfaction, job retention, effective communication, decreased stress, healthy work environments, and better Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scores.