Incivility Dilemma Consider yourself one day sitting at a table among you classmates or co-workers, and one them starts talking negative about someone that you are acquainted with. What would you do? Do you feed the situation by joining in on the conversation? This is a dilemma that many of us are faced with more often than we would like to admit. Incivility has been an issue for as long as I can remember, but there are things we can do to try and make our environments a better place to be. Let’s look at how some of these situations happen, and try to learn better solutions to deal with these dilemmas that we are sometimes faced with. Situation Trying to find harmony in school or work can sometimes be difficult, especially when you are dealing with a bunch of women. I don’t know why, but in my experience this is more common with women than it is with men. A majority of women seem to thrive on drama, and keeping things stirred up. They tend to try and knock each other down instead of trying to help build each other up. Unfortunately with these situations a mob mentality seems to ensue, or people are afraid they won’t be liked if they don’t join in on bashing other people. If a change is to occur, however, it needs to start during the formative years of a nurse’s education. We need to continue with work-shops and …show more content…
Most of us in my generation were taught to treat others as you would want to be treated. However, the more I learn about the younger generations the less I see of that type of consideration. But, that does not mean that I have lost hope that we can pull together and be a more positive influence on others. I feel that if given a choice people will do better if they learn to be better. I see these changes trying to be instilled in the students in my own academic environment. That tells me that other people also share those aspirations. Join me today to help build a better