The lowest scoring item for moral
distress frequency was 'Increase the dose sedative/opiates for an unconscious patient that I believe could hasten the patients' death' (mean 1.32 [+ or -] 1.1) and the lowest scoring item for moral distress intensity was 'Avoid taking action when I learn that a physician or nurse colleague has made a medical error and does not report it' (mean, 1.50 [+ or -] 0.88).
The watch, aimed at aircraft pilots and world-travellers, features a special micro-transmitter that broadcasts on the international aviation
distress frequency and offers an additional chance of survival in case of accident.
Pilot Linton Chilcott received a radio call from a US warship on a
distress frequency, telling him he was in a restricted area and to change course at once.
A coastguard spokesman said: "At about 11.30pm we could hear that a vessel had an open microphone on Channel 16 ( our calling and
distress frequency.
A Man Overboard alarm unit, which is fitted to oil installations, then picks up the watch's
distress frequency signal.
Electronic rat scarer, operates at
distress frequency pounds 70.
The main
distress frequency for sea-going vessels, Channel 16 VHF, was playing Moray Firth Radio's Breakfast Show instead of remaining open to take Mayday calls.