Crash Course

Instant Psychiatric Nurses

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You are hired on as a summer substitute nurse at a mental hospital not for your vast experience, for you don’t necessarily have the first or even the tiniest clue about mental illness or how to nurse it, nor for your amazing references or transcript from medical school, for you have none of these either, but for your clean clothes and newly (and quite nicely) cut hair — at least in my case. And…