Robin Ann Foreman
King University, USA
Biography
Robin Ann Foreman has been in nursing academia for over ten years. She teaches the Psychiatric/Mental Health course in the BSN Program and the Nurse Educator track specific courses in the MSN Program. She began studying interpersonal relationships and conflict management among nurses after her clinical students began experiencing incivility. Her doctoral dissertation investigated student-to-student incivility among prelicensure registered nursing students. She identified behaviors student nurses consider to be uncivil and coping strategies students employ when they are confronted with incivility. Her future work will be to develop educational programs to help nursing students have positive outcomes when uncivil behaviors are encountered using the ICE faculty intervention model for nursing student incivility: identification, coping skills, and empowerment. Critical social theory, oppressed group behavior theory, and the transactional model of stress and coping have guided this research.