Verbal Abuse among Student Nurses in Port Said Faculty of Nursing

This study aimed to describe student nurses' experiences of verbal abuse and determine their personal and professional responses. A sample of 102 student nurses was selected from different four scholarly levels. Verbal abuse questionnaire (VAQ) was used to collect the data. The study results clarify that the main source of verbal abuse was staff nurses in the clinical areas, followed by faculty members, only 23.5% of studied students reported about verbal abuse, and abusive anger recorded the highest percentage form of verbal abuse (58.8%) among students at the last semester. On the personal level most students (95.1%) have feelings of shame, while 81.4% of them were expressing feelings of hate toward their study. The study recommended that students should be encouraged to report abusive incidents through supporting and increasing self confidence and faculty administrators must take appropriate actions to manage these problems.