• Gurpreet Kaur
• Dr. Priyanka Chaudhary
• Heena Negi
• Bhuwan Naithani

Health care industry has evolved tremendously in past two decades globally as they are most demanding and needed sector for everyone in the world. Health care industry needs doctors, nurses, paramedical staff, non-medical technical staff for smooth functioning. Among all these multidisciplinary team the ratio of nurses is higher1. Nurses are the backbone of the health care industry as they work as mediator in such a huge industry for whole team. With evolving health facilities, the role and responsibilities for nurses are increasing everyday2. With great responsibilities of mediator nurses are under burden and experiencing different kind of oppression, bullying, pressure, conflict with horizontal and vertical staff3. Work place bullying is very prevalent among nurses as compare to another sub-sector staff4.Prevalence of verbal abuse was highest among nurses as compare to physical violence, sexual harassment in their operating places5,6. Aruna Ramachandra Shahnaug and many more nursing officers are the example of workplace harassment. Aim of the study was to find the prevalence of work place oppression among nurses in a selected tertiary health centre. Methodology- co- relational research deigns was used. Study was conducted at tertiary healthcare centre at Dehradun. Total 200 samples were selected through non-probability consecutive sampling technique. Self-structured demographic data tool, and Negative Act Questionnaire- Revised (NAQ-R) was used to collect data. Result-Majority of nurses revealed mild level of work place oppression whereas there was no sample who reported higher level or profound oppression work pace oppressed.

work place oppression, nursing staff, prevalence

"Prevalence of work place oppression among nursing staffs in a selected tertiary care centre Dehradun- A cross-sectional study.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 1, page no.a343-a346, January-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2301043.pdf

"Prevalence of work place oppression among nursing staffs in a selected tertiary care centre Dehradun- A cross-sectional study.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 1, page no. ppa343-a346, January-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2301043.pdf