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Archive > February, 2009 Vol. X, No. 2

Staffing

Can Winnie the Pooh Solve Lateral Violence?

Peggy Wojcik, RN, BSN, CNOR, CMLSO

While reading a Winnie the Pooh book to my grandkids, they told me how much they disliked Tigger for being bouncy and loud, and turned their noses at know-it-all Owl because he never helped his friends get out of their inevitable predicaments. That's when it hit me: The characters populating the Hundred Acre Wood are a lot like the characters in any hospital.

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