Harassment is not ‘just part of the job’
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Harassment is not ‘just part of the job’

Leanne Patrick Community Drugs and Alcohol Nurse, NHS Forth Valley and project coordinator for website and blog The Mental Elf

Nursing students should be given more support when dealing with sexual comments from patients

A discussion on Twitter caught my attention recently; a female nursing student was asking for advice about dealing with sexual comments from older male patients. Responses were, unsurprisingly, mixed.

Nursing Standard. 35, 4, 23-24. doi: 10.7748/ns.35.4.23.s14

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