Inter- and intraprofessional respect: A dying concept?

Unfortunately, the amount and timeliness of this literature suggests a sad fact. The problem of incivility and lack of respect in the workplace is getting worse, not better. Nurses are notorious for not respecting each other. The worn out cliché’ of “nurses eat their young” is, sadly, still relevant. Regrettably, it is not just new nurses who are treated poorly. More aggressive, more powerful nurses treat underlings, the timid, and less well‐connected nurses with the same disdain as more seasoned nurses treat the less experienced.