Nurses’ advice from gun-ridden US

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Nurses’ advice from gun-ridden US

Barbara Docherty

Thursday 28 March 2019, 01:32 PM

It is said that 14 per cent of nurses experience PTSD compared with 3.5 per cent of the general adult population

In the country where liberal gun laws still apply nurses are now being trained in techniques to reduce post traumatic stress disorder after mass shootings, writes Barbara Docherty

Their message was this: “You are new to such unspeakable acts of violence, so start preparing now for the next one” I’m not sure whether I felt

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