When Robin Walton was a nursing student on a London hospital ward in the 1960s, a patient climbed out of the window one day and jumped to his death. She remembers three consequences of this event. 'It was traumatic. Nurses felt guilt and blame. And the window openings were reduced,' she says. What did not happen was any kind of counselling for the affected staff or training on how to support patients who felt suicidal.
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