Healing the hospital hierarchy.

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Healing the hospital hierarchy.

March 27, 2013

Brown T. New York Times. March 17, 2013:SR5.

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This newspaper article relates a nursing perspective on how authority gradients and disruptive behavior can influence health care delivery and patient safety.

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