Article topics: Instututionalised, Nurse training, ‘Skivvy’
In the first of two articles, Barbara Green reflects on life in the ’sylums of the ’60s, and gives a humorous and sometimes tragic account of her training days as a student psychiatric nurse.
Barbara Green RGN, SCM, DN Cert is a District Nurse, Calderdale Primary Care Trust, West Yorkshire. Article accepted for publication April 2002.
