ABSTRACT
It was a gated room. There was a gate at the door, but, but it’s important. I was having an argument with him [the prisoner-patient], well, he was arguing with me and I was not so much arguing as trying to put my point across and there was all these other prisoners watching and standing at the door. He walked away and eventually backed down a bit…you have to rely on your own skills to deal with them as sometimes there aren’t any other officers. I mean, if it got too bad, I would just press the alarm bell (Prison Nurse in Walsh 2007).
