ORIGINAL ARTICLE Susan Monaro B.App.Sc. Nursing, MN, PhD, RN Corresponding Author Vascular Clinical Nurse Consultant, Clinical Senior Lecturer sue.monaro@health.nsw.gov.au orcid.org/0000-0002-4172-4932 Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney Nursing School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia Correspondence Susan Monaro, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney Nursing School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.