My next ward was a mental health ward at Queen Mary's Roehampton. I didn't like this placement, and I thought ECT was horrible. That's all I'm going to say about it!
I loved my next ward - it was ITU/CCU at Queen Mary's (for non-medical followers, ITU = Intensive Therapy Unit or Intensive Care and CCU = Coronary Care Unit. It was brilliant doing one-to-one care. We did have a cleaner who thought her hoover was more important than the ventilators and she sometimes 'pulled the plug'. I worked on Christmas Day on ITU. I was looking after a child who was unconscious after being very ill and she woke up to a massive pile of presents.
Wow - I always thought the plug-pulling cleaner was an urban myth! Maybe it's quite a common phenomenon ...
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