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Worried nurses react differently to attacks on staff and patients in psychiatric wards
04-12-2007 · EurekAlert!Psychiatric nurses face real and highly understandable fears, but they take firmer action when patients attack staff than when they attack other patients. The study of 254 aggressive incidents in London psychiatric wards appears in the latest Journal of Advanced Nursing.
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