title: Do shoes matter? A story of shoes in the neonatal intensive care unit.
abstract: Faced with an increase in foot-related absences and complaints of foot pain by staff, a nurse manager sought help from the nursing research department staff to help find answers to this problem. The authors discuss how replacing the shoes that the nurses wore to a walker-style shoe was able to improve not only the foot pain but also the unit's health as well.
authors.affiliation: Research Services, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Mercy Health Center, 4300 W Memorial Road, Oklahoma City, OK 73120, USA. Gparker@ok.mercy.net
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McEver
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fanning
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Siefke
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Dobbs
mesh_terms: D005534:Foot Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D015931:Intensive Care, Neonatal; D009726:Nurses; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D012775:Shoes