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Channeling Nurses' Anger Into Positive Interventions
Author(s) -
Thomas Sandra P.,
Droppleman Patricia
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
nursing forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.618
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1744-6198
pISSN - 0029-6473
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6198.1997.tb00517.x
Subject(s) - anger , psychology , psychological intervention , interpersonal communication , interpersonal relationship , nursing interventions classification , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychotherapist , nursing , psychiatry , medicine
Nurses are angry, and with good reason, but few seem to be proficient in anger management. Work‐related experiences of anger were vividly described by female registered nurses (Smith, Droppleman, & Thomas, 1996) and male registered nurses (Brooks, Thomas, Droppleman, 1996) in phenomenological interviews. The roots of the anger were found in the system and the interpersonal and intrapsychic elements of nursing. In this article the authors outline strategies to address system and interpersonal sources of anger provocations, and describe positive interventions that can reduce the intrapsychic characteristics that fuel personal anger.