Dunedin Hospital. Photo / ODTTwo of the Otago Polytechnic student nurses called in to help at the chronically short-staffed Dunedin Hospital last month were asked to do a suicide watch on a patient. "It is not trivial to be on suicide watch at all ... that just made the whole thing even less palatable to me. A qualified professional doing a suicide watch was trained to spot verbal or body language clues about how the person was, Taylor said. Little also advised that 21 student nurses from Otago Polytechnic School of Nursing were called on to work on July 23-24 to help provide patient watch work at Dunedin Hospital.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 28, 2022 19:51 UTC