Staff meeting gestalt: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Gastroenterol Nurs

Phyllis Malpas, MA, RN, CGRN, is Nurse Manager, Endoscopy in the Digestive Disease Service Line, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston.

Published: July 2010

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