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(Guest post by Bruce)

I attended a PSTS training day the other (jolly good fun it was too). Towards the end of the course the speaker showed a slide containing a list of words the Healthcare Commisson had found in various types of nursing documentation and considered innappropriate or unsuitable. This list included obvious ones like flooring or decking (known, I believe, as physical interventions in more suitable terminology) but also agitation, distressed, frightened and unwell. I have to admit that I have used these on numerous occassions whilst ‘writing-up’. Personally, I don’t see the problem with the latter words, does anyone else?

P.S. I have had a pleasant and settled evening.