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☐ ☆ ✇ Journal of Advanced Nursing

The Impact of Observed Workplace Ostracism on Nurses' Helping Behaviour: The Role of Moral Courage and Employee Resilience

Por: Zhengang Liu · Jilong Chen · Genqiang Li · Ling Ma · Junqiang Zhao — Julio 16th 2025 at 01:19

ABSTRACT

Aim

This study investigates how observed workplace ostracism affects nurses' helping behaviour from a bystander's perspective, examining the mediating roles of moral courage and employee resilience to inform strategies for fostering workplace harmony in nursing settings.

Design

A cross-sectional study design was adopted.

Methods

A survey of 346 nurses from two Grade III, Level A hospitals in Henan, China, utilised scales measuring workplace ostracism, moral courage, helping behaviour and employee resilience. SPSS Statistics 26.0, Mplus 8.3 and the SPSS macro program Process 4.1 plugin were used to test the associations among variables.

Results

Observed workplace ostracism positively correlated with nurses' helping behaviour, with moral courage partially mediating this relationship. Employee resilience moderated both the link between observed workplace ostracism and moral courage, and the indirect effect of observed workplace ostracism on helping behaviour through moral courage.

Conclusion

Nurses with high levels of resilience demonstrate moral courage when observing workplace ostracism and engage in helping behaviours towards those ostracised.

Impact

This study examines how workplace ostracism undermines nursing team cohesion and individual well-being. It highlights that bolstering nurses' resilience and moral courage can alleviate these adverse effects, thereby improving patient care quality. Nursing managers are advised to adopt targeted strategies, such as resilience training, to mitigate workplace ostracism.

Implications for the Profession and/or Patient Care

This study employs a questionnaire to explore nurses' views of workplace ostracism and helping behaviours, aiming to inform strategies for fostering nursing team harmony and improving care quality.

Reporting Method

This study strictly follows the STROBE reporting guidelines to ensure the clarity and credibility of the research findings.

Patient or Public Contribution

Data were collected from hospital nurses through electronic questionnaires.

☐ ☆ ✇ International Wound Journal

Perineal wound complications after vertical rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap and mesh closure following abdominoperineal surgery and pelvic exenteration of anal and rectal cancers: A meta‐analysis

Por: Jiang Liu · Chao Fu · Zhiliang Chen · Gang Li — Agosto 4th 2023 at 10:40

Abstract

A meta-analysis research was implemented to appraise the perineal wound complications (PWCs) after vertical rectus abdominis myocutaneous (VRAM) flap and mesh closure (MC) following abdominoperineal surgery (AS) and pelvic exenteration (PE) of anal and rectal cancers. Inclusive literature research till April 2023 was done and 2008 interconnected researches were revised. Of the 20 picked researches, enclosed 2972 AS and PE of anal and rectal cancers persons were in the utilized researchers' starting point, 1216 of them were utilizing VRAM flap, and 1756 were primary closure (PC). Odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were utilized to appraise the consequence of VRAM flap in treating AS and PE of anal and rectal cancers by the dichotomous approach and a fixed or random model. VRAM flap had significantly lower PWCs (OR, 0.64; 95% CI, 0.42–0.98, p < 0.001), and major PWCs (OR, 0.50; 95% CI, 0.32–0.80, p = 0.004) compared to PC in AS and PE of anal and rectal cancers persons. However, VRAM flap and PC had no significant difference in minor PWCs (OR, 1; 95% CI, 0.54–1.85, p = 1.00) in AS and PE of anal and rectal cancer persons. VRAM flap had significantly lower PWCs, and major PWCs, however, no significant difference was found in minor PWCs compared to PC in AS and PE of anal and rectal cancers persons. However, caution needs to be taken when interacting with its values since there was a low sample size of most of the chosen research found for the comparisons in the meta-analysis.

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