title: We've caught up in more way than one.
abstract: Twenty years ago I embarked on a four month study tour of the mergency services in Canada and the United States. This tour was made possible through the generosity of the Florence Nightingale Foundation. This foundation provides annual scholarship awards that enable nurses to travel, broaden their knowledge and bring back to the UK new ideas to benefit patient care. My study tour took in four hospitals emergency departments in Canada and five in the US. I travelled the length and breadth of the two ountries and also spent time bserving three paramedic systems. was privileged to spend time in some the world's best known trauma care systems.
authors.affiliation: Florence nightingale foundation, and a & e nurse consultant and expert witness.
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jones