Agonising over putting patients before family
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Agonising over putting patients before family

Jane Bates Ophthalmic nurse, Hampshire

‘It was drummed into us at PTS,’ said a nursing friend sympathetically. PTS, for those not of our vintage, was Preliminary Training School, where we fledgling nurses learned how to sew our frilly caps and align hospital bed wheels with the meridian.

Nursing Standard. 32, 5, 31-31. doi: 10.7748/ns.32.5.31.s35

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