Broadmoor was a placement a couple of times during training but she worked a few years on secure hospitals in and around B'ham. With a higher staff ration, Broadmoor was probably safer than the B'ham places. She's never mentioned that there were any porters there to help, and she wasn't given a lot of training other than restraint. They had panic buttons around the wards and persona; attack alarms but all this did was summon nursing staff from pother wards.
I'm not sure whether she is really much safer now as she deals with those who have been released into the community, and routinely visits them mostly alone. She calls in to the office before entering a property and then calls in again when she's out, and there are some where she doesn't go in alone. She has assisted the police in removing her patients to hospital if they've been sectioned (usually for violent events, and none are keen to go back inside). Her patch includes the inner city area and her job takes her to some of the least pleasant parts of B'ham, and often into the poorest and most dangerous areas.
Most of her patients don't really understand what's going on at the moment, she said she has one who thinks he has to stay in because the govt is spraying harmful stuff over the population, and she said that many of them don't bother too much with restrictions on going out: it doesn't prevent them visiting and spending time with their drug dealers.
I don't believe she's had more safety training than advanced restraint techniques. I think she'd only really be "allowed" to use recognised techniques, though in the event of her being seriously assaulted I suppose anything is fair enough.
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