"Nurses who eat their young" is an example of what type of behavior?
1.
Codependency
2.
Horizontal hostility
3.
Theory X
4.
Theory Y
ANS: 4
Horizontal hostility occurs when nurses do not support each other. Nurses who eat their young is an example of oppressed group behavior. "I had to do it the hard way and so do they" is a statement often made by older nurses about younger nurses and refers to nurses who eat their young.
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