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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Faith Myers, an Anchorage woman with schizophrenia, has been in and out of mental institutions since 2000. She said she felt violated during the time she spent at the Alaska Psychiatric Institute in Anchorage because male nurses would regularly see her and other female patients bathing, using the bathroom and dressing.
API changed its policies in 2004, allowing patients to request a staff member of the same sex to be in the same room, but not necessarily as the nurse who performs the intimate care duties.
Myers said the policy does not go far enough.
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