Incivility occurs in many nursing workplace settings including academia. The presence of incivility impedes the development and continued growth of employees and creates a negative work environment. An ongoing nursing faculty shortage further plagues the nursing profession, limiting enrollments in nursing programs, resulting in the continued nursing shortage. The needs for an increase in nursing faculty, particularly those with an earned doctoral degree, has also been challenged as nursing faculty are not remaining in academia. As Faculty to Faculty incivility (FTFI) in nursing education continues and collegial relationships are strained, faculty returning to complete PhD studies face additional challenges. Understanding the experiences of FTFI within this particular population and the development of strategies to combat FTFI based on the findings may allow for an increase of PhD prepared nursing faculty, retention of nursing faculty, increase enrollments in pre-licensure nursing programs, and work to lessen the nursing shortage. The current study explored the experience of FTFI on full-time nursing faculty enrolled in a PhD program. A qualitative method using descriptive phenomenology guided the study. Purposive sampling, followed by snowballing led to the recruitment of 13 participants who were full-time nursing faculty and had self-identified as having experienced FTFI while enrolled in PhD studies. Semi-structured interviews conducted via Zoom technology served as the primary data source. Auditory reviews followed by verbatim transcription were analyzed using Colaizzi's method. Six themes emerged: 1) culture, 2) feeling broken and self-doubting, 3) feeling set up for failure, 4) addressing, 5) coping, and 6) lessons learned. The results from this research study examined the full-time nursing faculty's experiences of FTFI while enrolled in PhD studies. Findings have significant implications for higher education institutions, administrators, nursing faculty, and PhD programs. Findings may be used to develop strategies to promote a civil workplace and decrease incivility. These findings also suggest a need for further research in this area. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]