A qualitative inquiry of causes and Consequences of workplace violence Towards female nurses of pakistan

Abstract

Workplace violence against female nurses is a longstanding issue in Pakistan. Though policy for violence is well defined both by the government and the hospital administrations, the issue is still unresolved. The purpose of this paper is to qualitatively discover the causes and consequences of workplace violence faced by female nurses in Pakistan. Furthermore, the study aims to investigate the effects of workplace violence on the performance of Pakistani female nurses. The study is qualitative in nature; data was collected in three sets (10+17+24) from 51 female nurses from June 2013 to October 2014 through in-depth interviews using open-ended questions. The average time of each interview was 22 minutes and all interviews were conducted at the workplace. The data were analyzed using the grounded theory, by comparing all three data sets. The open, exile and selective coding was done to reach the main themes and theoretical relationships of the data. Nvivo 10 software was