Clinic’s success shows power of nurses’ insights

It was only supposed to be a short stay in hospital – 24 hours to sort things out, and then she would be home again. They needed the bed, apart from anything else. But my mother, by this time in her nineties, ended up staying on the ward for a week because when it came to discharging her, things kept going wrong. The take-home medications weren’t ready. The doctor hadn’t signed off this or that. You get the picture.