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Most nurses are great people and exemplary co-workers, but the few disruptive personalities that do exist can wreak havoc on an OR's otherwise ideal environment, said Kathleen Bartholomew, RC, RN, MN, during her presentation on creating healthy nursing relationships. "We put up with a few bad apples because we can't get rid of them," she said, comparing a particularly toxic nurse she once worked with to "a gangrenous limb that the nurse manager wouldn't cut off in order for the rest of the staff to live."
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