title: Sexual harassment is no laughing matter.
abstract: Sexual harassment is neither new to nursing nor a recent phenomenon. It has been a fact of life in the wards since the last century. Keenly aware of the abuse suffered by nurses, Florence Nightingale noted "that no male hospital administrator or official ... would intervene on the side of a woman when her accuser was a higher status male, for example a physician or surgeon".
authors.affiliation: Board of the Employment Equality Agency, Dublin, Ireland.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mrkwicka
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007392:International Council of Nurses; D007494:Ireland; D008297:Male; D009726:Nurses; D016134:Organizational Policy; D017406:Sexual Harassment; D012956:Societies, Nursing