‘We have a duty to challenge, just as we have a duty of care.’ Photo: by Sage Friedman on Unsplash
Practical peacemaking: Anne Wade has more on the application of the Quaker method
‘How memorable, these tiny pieces of peacemaking.’
by Anne Wade
28th June 2024
When I left school I chose to do a combined training in general and psychiatric nursing. One night, just after I started, a woman was admitted to my ward in hysterics, saying that she would die before morning. The staff nurse and senior student nurse said there was nothing wrong with her, and she must not waken the ward. As a new recruit, a teenager, I was not allowed an opinion. The woman and I were shut in a linen cupboard, on hard chairs, and I was told just to keep her quiet.
