Table 1.

Strategies to prevent workplace incivility, lateral violence and bullying in nurses’ professional community

- To increase the awareness of these phenomena among nurses, managers, and administrators

- To perform informative and educative campaigns to imple¬ment prevention

- To provide nurses with assertive communication and conflict management skills to face bullying

- Leadership style centered on authentic relationships

- Zero tolerance strategies towards every kind of abuse

- Healthcare workers conduct codes defining accepted and not accepted behaviours, disrupting behaviours, and the manage¬ment processes of inadequate behaviours

- In some cases, appropriate legislation