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The data were obtained by administering a workplace vertical violence survey, designed specifically for this study, to 120 nursing interns at a tertiary general hospital in Zhejiang Province, China.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The results demonstrated that the variables \u201cI was ordered to do something beyond my ability and lacked guidance (<jats:italic>C<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>3<\/jats:sub>),\u201d \u201cErrors in work have been repeatedly emphasized, spread, or exaggerated (<jats:italic>C<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>8<\/jats:sub>),\u201d \u201cI was unjustly criticized (<jats:italic>C<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>9<\/jats:sub>),\u201d \u201cI was withheld or blocked information purposefully (<jats:italic>C<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>1<\/jats:sub>),\u201d and \u201cI was belittled at work (<jats:italic>C<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>)\u201d were the most crucial variables for determining the presence of workplace vertical violence of nursing interns. Moreover, they are priority improvement variables.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Managers must prioritize the use of relevant resources during internships to minimize false reinforcement and unfair criticism. Efforts should focus on improving information sharing, emphasizing the role of nursing interns in clinical work, providing better guidance when arranging for nursing interns to do work that exceeds their capacity, reducing workplace vertical violence, and improving nursing intern practice environments.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fmed.2023.1210872","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,29]],"date-time":"2023-09-29T04:31:20Z","timestamp":1695961880000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Evaluation and improvement of workplace vertical violence of nursing interns based on the Importance-Performance Analysis method"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Weifang","family":"Xu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lili","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Haohao","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Siqi","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mao","family":"Ye","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fuqin","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yen-Ching","family":"Chuang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fuman","family":"Cai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","first-page":"13","article-title":"Why, when we are deemed to be carers, are we so mean to our colleagues? 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