Building Respect and Reducing Incivility in the Workplace: Professional Standards and Recommendations to Improve the Work Environment for Nurses

This column has provided a summary of tangible resources, guidelines, and tools that you can use to decrease incivility and violence in your workplace. The rising trend of workplace violence and incivility is concerning if we are to have healthy work environments that improve safety for patients and employees and if we want to stop the violence in health care. © 2016 AACN.