title: Application of the Symphonological approach to faculty-to-faculty incivility in nursing education.
abstract: The nature of ethical interactions among nurse educators is crucial in modeling ethically based relationships for nursing students. This article focuses on the issue of uncivil faculty-to-faculty relationships in nursing education and is supported by a literature review of incivility in academic settings and the experiential reflections of seasoned nurse educators. The bioethical practice-based theory of symphonology provides a new perspective for framing these reviews and reflections. This theory can facilitate decision making in difficult interactions and sustain a focus on the central agreements that are foundational to nursing education. Incivility exemplars are explored within the context of autonomy, freedom, objectivity, beneficence, and fidelity, and the integration of academia and ethics is discussed as essential to nursing education and human caring.
authors.forename: Kathleen G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Burger
authors.forename: Debra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kramlich
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Malitas
authors.forename: Karin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Page-Cutrara
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Whitfield-Harris
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000941:ethics*; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009742:Nursing Theory; D012919:Social Behavior