Killing us softly with their wrongs: Nursing academia's ‘killer elite’ continue unabated

In our combined 90+ years in nursing we have published over 700 papers. Nothing, however, evoked responses like “Academic nursing's killer elite'’ (Thompson & Darbyshire, 2013). To say that we ‘touched a nerve’ is an understatement, but we understated the malignant narcissist, corporate psychopath, dimensions of the 'killer elite' and extend that discussion now. We received then and continue to receive, harrowing ‘testimonies’ (Hartin et al.,...