Screening by our nurse with the trigger tool revealed that 51 of these UL-LOS records contained one or more triggers.
"We eventually found some relatives and a physician in Jamaica who was willing to accept him, and one of our nurses flew with him to Jamaica.
Furthermore, in our study, nurses with higher attitude scores were more willing to receive additional training in OHC, which would likely lead to improvements in their knowledge in the area.
We have to take our nurses and doctors with us... we want to work with them, not against them," he said.
Our continued goal is that our nurses become comfortable with BG levels in the middle range of normal, thus avoiding hyperglycaemia that would otherwise occur because they are "playing it safe".
"We are becoming a community where our teachers, our police, our firefighters, our nurses, they can't live with us.
Additionally, many of our nursing-home patients with arranged transportation could not tolerate the excessively long ride into the city.
Our nurse greeted me with a wonderful blue rosette badge and a small card that lay on top of the incubator; the card contained a tiny hand-print and footprint stamp, no bigger than four or five cms in length; my first cuddle after 19 long days made this one of the best days of my life.
In our study, those nurses with the poorest physical health were six times more likely to have experienced foot/ankle problems limiting their activity.
