title: Self defence for oldham nurses.
abstract: Accident and Emergency nurses at Oldham Royal Infirmary are to be taught self defence by Britain's leading woman exponent of martial arts. This follows an increasing number of incidents in their unit where drunken friends or relatives of patients have attacked or verbally abused nurses, often at night when the three nurses on duty may be coping with 60 [Illegible word] and those accompanying them.