Week 3 Capstone and Practicum

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Bullying Among School Aged Children

Capstone Change Project Objectives

Bullying jeopardizes school-age children’s and adolescents’ ability to develop normally and maintain good psychosocial relationships. One in five students reported experiencing bullying on school grounds within the previous year, according to data from two significant national surveys, the Youth Risk Behaviors Survey, which polled high school students, and the National Crime Victimization Survey: School Crime Supplement, which polled 12 to 18-year-olds (Kann et al., 2018). The impression of social prejudice in teenagers from minority cultural groups predicts mistrust of the majority culture. When adolescents from minority groups encounter racial and cultural discrimination, their expectations of what the institutions can provide are lowered. Bullying is a behavioral issue that needs an approach like nurse-led presentations that facilitate learning of emotional intelligence, self-regulation, relationship management, and self-awareness skills to help reduce bullying behavior. The proposed intervention seeks to reduce reported bullying incidences among adolescents, increase awareness of bullying, and facilitate social and emotional learning. (Bullying Among School Aged Children)

First Objective: Reduce the Incidences of Reported Bullying

The primary aim of the nurse-led presentation is to reduce the incidences of reported bullying among adolescents. Lower rates and lower prevalence of bullying victimization, below 5%, are desired. (Bullying Among School Aged Children)

Second Objective: Increasing Awareness about Adolescent Bullying

Raising awareness to prevent and reduce the incidence of bullying is vital. The nurse-led presentation acts as an anti-bullying campaign that advocates for bullying victims and encourages actions against bullying behavior.(Bullying Among School Aged Children)

Third Objective: Facilitate social and emotional learning

Bullying occurs in social contexts and involves emotional exchanges between the perpetrator and the victim. Social and emotional learning to develop self-awareness, self-regulation, emotional intelligence, and relationship management skills can help reduce bullying behavior.(Bullying Among School Aged Children)

Autonomy and Social Justice for Individuals and Diverse Population

Bullying is a form of social injustice and an indication of power imbalance. Bullying is associated with aggressive behavior and peer influence. Also, lack of autonomy is a significant factor in adolescent bullying (Streight, 2018). Adopting interventions to reduce reported bullying incidences would help create a social justice environment for teenagers. Nurse-led presentation to increase awareness of bullying and facilitate social and emotional awareness enhances competence and autonomy. Self-regulation, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and relationship management skills reduce susceptibility to peer influence and improve autonomy in decision-making.(Bullying Among School Aged Children)

References

Kann, L., McManus, T., Harris, W. A., Shanklin, S. L., Flint, K. H., Queen, B., Lowry, R., Chyen, D., Whittle, L., Thornton, J., Lim, C., Bradford, D., Yamakawa, Y., Leon, M., Brener, N., & Ethier, K. A. (2018). Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance – the United States, 2017. Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Surveillance summaries (Washington, D.C.: 2002), 67(8), 1–114. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss6708a1

Streight, D. (2018). Without autonomy and competence, count on bullying to continue. Heart of Character. https://www.heartofcharacter.org/without-autonomy-competence-count-bullying-continue/

PICOT Statement Paper

Bullying among children and adolescents is a significant public health issue. One in five students reported experiencing bullying on school grounds within the previous year, and one in six young people reported being victims of cyberbullying (Kann et al., 2018). Bullying can cause physical, psychological, social, or educational injury or discomfort to the targeted youth. Despite Healthy People 2020’s intention to lessen bullying among teenagers, the prevalence of physical and online bullying is still high. Hong et al. (2019) posit that bullying requires the concerted and coordinated time and attention of parents, educators, school administrators, and health care providers, including nurses, policymakers, families, and other parties involved in the care of children. Examining the impact of a nurse-led intervention in reducing the reported cases of bullying is imperative.(Bullying Among School Aged Children)

PICOT Question

When caring for high school adolescent patients, does a nurse-led presentation on bullying compared to no intervention decrease reported bullying incidents within ten weeks?

Nurses, particularly school nurses, are in a position to recognize adolescent bullying victims via physical and psychosocial assessment. Nurses can take immediate action steps to intervene in potential or actual bullying. The PICOT question demonstrates nurses’ role in preventing and reducing bullying incidences within a ten-week timeframe.(Bullying Among School Aged Children)

PICOT Problem

             The estimated prevalence of bullying victimization is 10% to 35% among teenagers reporting recurring bullying victimization (Moore et al., 2017). Although contextual and cultural variations affect prevalence estimates, varying assessment approaches often cause this variance. According to reports, a synthesis of traditional bullying and cyberbullying and a study of the variability in the prevalence of victimization due to bullying revealed a prevalence of 36% for traditional bullying victimization and 15% for cyberbullying victimization (Moore et al., 2017). The high prevalence rates mandate the design and implementation of interventions that help prevent the occurrence of bullying.(Bullying Among School Aged Children)

Nurses can play a part in breaking the bullying loop. Nurses are ideally suited to take the lead in formulating sensible regulations, proactive campaigns to prevent teen bullying, and tactics to lessen or stop it. Additionally, by studying the nature of ethnic disparities, including different cultural norms, social circumstances, and coping skills, and performing research on bullying, nurses can pinpoint intervention tactics and put forth more precise suggestions to break the bullying loop.(Bullying Among School Aged Children)

Nursing Intervention

The proposed intervention is a nurse-led presentation on bullying, which aims to create awareness of bullying among adolescents, facilitate social and emotional learning, and minimize reported incidences of bullying. Participants will be taught self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, responsible decision-making, and relationship management skills (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2018). The intervention aims to improve emotional well-being, self-regulation, and classroom relationship and develop kind and helpful behavior through social and emotional learning. The presentation will be in the form of education programs throughout the ten weeks, and participants will be evaluated at the end.(Bullying Among School Aged Children)

Clinical Problem & Patient Outcome

Adopting a nurse-led presentation to create awareness of bullying and facilitate social and emotional learning can help reduce the incidences of reported bullying and promote positive behavior. This approach draws upon behavioral, social learning, organization, and youth development models to manage behaviors (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2018). Adolescent students attending the presentation are expected to learn emotional intelligence, self-regulation, relationship management, and self-awareness, skills that will help reduce bullying behavior. (Bullying Among School Aged Children)

Conclusion

Bullying is a form of peer violence that is intentional, recurrent, and marked by an unbalanced power dynamic between the perpetrator and the victim. Victims are susceptible to melancholy, suicidal thoughts, anxiety, psychosis, low academic performance, and suicide. Bullying is connected to problems with moral growth, empathy, and relational dynamics based on prejudice. Nurse-led presentations to create awareness and facilitate social and emotional learning can help reduce adolescent bullying incidences.(Bullying Among School Aged Children)

References

Hong, J. S., Espelage, D. L., & Rose, C. A. (2019). Bullying, peer victimization, and child and adolescent health: An introduction to the special issue. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 28(9), 2329-2334.

Kann, L., McManus, T., Harris, W. A., Shanklin, S. L., Flint, K. H., Hawkins, J., Queen, B., Lowry, R., Olsen, E. O., Chyen, D., Whittle, L., Thornton, J., Lim, C., Yamakawa, Y., Brener, N., & Zaza, S. (2016). Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance – the United States, 2015. Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Surveillance summaries (Washington, D.C.: 2002), 65(6), 1–174. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss6506a1(Bullying Among School Aged Children)

Kann, L., McManus, T., Harris, W. A., Shanklin, S. L., Flint, K. H., Queen, B., Lowry, R., Chyen, D., Whittle, L., Thornton, J., Lim, C., Bradford, D., Yamakawa, Y., Leon, M., Brener, N., & Ethier, K. A. (2018). Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance – the United States, 2017. Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Surveillance summaries (Washington, D.C.: 2002), 67(8), 1–114. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss6708a1

Moore, S. E., Norman, R. E., Suetani, S., Thomas, H. J., Sly, P. D., & Scott, J. G. (2017). Consequences of bullying victimization in childhood and adolescence: A systematic review and meta-analysis. World journal of psychiatry, 7(1), 60–76. https://doi.org/10.5498/wjp.v7.i1.60(Bullying Among School Aged Children)

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2018). Preventing bullying through science, policy, and practice.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/