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viki · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

You are doing a clinical rotation in a psychiatricmental 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

Question 2

Clients who are admitted to mental health facilities are a vulnerable population. Actions that a nurse might never engage in as an individual may be demonstrated in a group setting due to perceptions of:

A) Power
B) Knowledge
C) Inferiority
D) Insight

nyrave · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Ans: B
Feedback:
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.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: A
Feedback:
In mental health settings, clients are vulnerable. Nurses and clinical staff, for all the emphasis on collaboration with clients and families, remain in positions of power. This power derives from their status as members of a profession with specialized knowledge that clients and their families may not have. The power differential is even greater in locked units to which clients have been involuntarily committed. Although we may think of ourselves as having a consistent and stable personality across time and space, we are not always the same people working alone as we are working in a group.