I've only worked in two hospitals on 3 units, but I can say I've never seen a case of nursing eating their young.
I think there's high turnover sometimes, and I've seen some experienced nurses get burned out on precepting, because it's difficult and time consuming to train a new nurse. And if you put all that time and effort into someone for 2 months only to have them leave, it's disheartening.
I've seen experienced nurses who were less than enthusiastic about new nurses, but they didn't treat them badly in any way.
I don't think it's prevalent anymore, to be honest. But maybe I've been lucky.
