Daniel Allen says seek out foreign parts - but check for toilet doors
It was the toilet doors that finished me. I could cope with the locked wards, the 12-hour shifts, the bouts of homesickness and even with the possums running round in the roof space of the nurses’ home. And there were lots of positives – sunshine, long holidays, parakeets in the hospital grounds. But nothing compensated for the toilet doors – or rather the lack of them.
Nursing Standard. 17, 12, 24-24. doi: 10.7748/ns.17.12.24.s33
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