Abstract
[This is an excerpt.] Student incivility in nursing programs is a growing and urgent problem. Nursing faculty increasingly struggle to manage its impact on effective teaching and learning in classroom and clinical settings. The extent of this incivility, which includes derogatory language and physical confrontations with peers and faculty, reflects the divergence in worldviews and complex stressors observed in our daily news cycle and acted out on social media platforms, contributing to the perception that it is permissible in our educational and professional spheres. These behaviors, likely multi-factorial in their origins, could reflect student burnout, feeling overwhelmed by academic and personal demands, and the inability to effectively negotiate personal stressors and relationships. Student burn-out is associated with lower self-concept, self-confidence, self-esteem, and engagement, negatively affecting learning and motivation (Wei et al., 2021). The student with burnout usually conveys anxiety, depression, aggression, frustration, reluctance to do schoolwork, despair, and inefficiency (Wei, 2021). The 2023 Stress in America Survey supports the overwhelming stress reported by adults age 18 to 34 years. Seventy-one percent of respondents do not discuss stress to avoid burdening others, 67% indicate stress makes it hard to focus, and 55% report it is difficult to do anything when stressed (American Psychological Association, 2023). Fifty percent report having a mental health diagnosis, and 51% report a chronic illness. [To read more, click View Resource.]
