mprovement in functional performance is considered an important management goal in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Pulmonary rehabilitation is now considered as an evidence based intervention to achieve an improvement in functional capacity as well as other management goals such as improved health status and reduction in breathlessness. 1 Although exercise training i...

So there I was - 3am on a cold December morning walking around the pontoons of an oil rig, seawater swirling over my boots, torch in one hand, lead in the other and on the end of the lead.., a diver. How did this happen to a nurse and why wasn't I in a nice warm hospital?