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User Perspective — The Good Psychiatric Nurse

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Just before breakfast time on an acute Psychiatric ward a Nurse shouted at me, threatened me and really frightened me. I was then in the early depressive phase following a manic episode. If I didn’t immediately get up and dressed, she yelled, I’d be in serious trouble. As I almost fell over trying to get my underwear on, she called me lazy and worthless. In my heavily drugged state she showed no compassion or understanding at all. She was hateful.

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  1. Anne Maidment
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Health and Social Care, University of Teesside, England

    Stephan D. Kirby MSc, PgC, (L&T), Dip MDO, RMN (PhD Student) (Senior Lecturer), Denis A. Hart MPhil, MA/CQSW, MA, BSc. (Soc), MBSA (Visiting Lecturer), Dennis Cross TD, BA (Hons), BEd (Hons), MA, RMN, RGN, RNT, (PhD Student) (Principal Lecturer) & Gordon Mitchell BSc (Hons), MA, RMN, Dip Nursing, ILTM (Senior Lecturer and Pathway Leader for Pre-Registration Mental Health Nursing) (Senior Lecturer),  (Visiting Lecturer),  (Principal Lecturer) &  (Senior Lecturer and Pathway Leader for Pre-Registration Mental Health Nursing)

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© 2004 Anne Maidment

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Maidment, A. (2004). User Perspective — The Good Psychiatric Nurse. In: Kirby, S.D., Hart, D.A., Cross, D., Mitchell, G. (eds) Mental Health Nursing. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-9756-2_4

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