The research itself appears unbiased and thorough. That said, because the researchers didn't interview the subjects themselves and couldn't hear the inflections of their stories, it's impossible to completely apply their findings to a generalized population. The researchers mentioned recognizing their own biases, but did not specify what those biases were. AuditabilityOverall, the research process was well organized and logical. However, the researchers should have included the 30 themes they used to categorize the quotes. To avoid doing so, future researchers will need to establish their own themes, which may be different from those found in this study. They included partial quotes that represented the data well. They also discussed their procedure at length. SuitabilityIt is clear from using more than one sector to discuss workplace bullying that many professions might find this information useful. Nurses, in particular, are more likely to engage in subtle bullying due to the nature of their work. Typical forms of bullying: shouting, aggressive actions and violence are unlikely to be used regularly in nursing practice. Nurses are more likely to ostracize, use “doublespeak,” or frame their bullying tactics as useful to the organization (Cox Dzurec et al., 2014). It is important in this area to recognize that prosody has just as powerful an effect as word choice.