Proposition d'une perspective disciplinaire pour l'exploration de facteurs organisationnels influençant la violence horizontale chez les infirmières
Summary An integrative and critical analysis of the last decade’s studies regarding horizontal violence (HV) among staff nurses and their underlying theoretical frameworks was conducted.  Following this analysis, it has become clear that HV among nurses should be prevented with interventions held within the work environment because of its important prevalence, the variety of negative actions and their multiple consequences for the nurses, the patients and the healthcare organization.  However, a lack of knowledge regarding organizational factors of influence as well as the absence of an optimal theoretical framework to explore them, remain.  This constitutes an obstacle to the development of effective prevention strategies in the health establishments.  Therefore, a theoretical framework that allows the comprehension and contribution of those factors should be made available to researchers and nursing managers in order to orient the choice of prevention strategies to deploy.  A nursing framework would ensure a disciplinary coherence for its users and the transfer of knowledge in the healthcare environments.  The «Culture Care Diversity and Universality theory» elaborated by Leininger (1988; 2001; 2006; 2010) along with the Sunrise Model (Leininger, 2001) are proposed and privileged as a disciplinary perspective for the exploration of organizational factors that influence horizontal violence among staff nurses.
Leininger Horizontal violence Nurses Organizational factors Prevention Theoretical frameworks Nursing perspective Integrative analysis