Table 2.

Caregiver training and education (N = 51)^*

	Percentage (N)
Number of Caregivers to Be Trained
Two	78.4 (40)
One	15.7 (8)
Three or four	5.9 (3)
Skills required of caregivers
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation training	98 (50)
Independent tracheostomy changes	90 (46)
Tracheostomy changes with a second caregiver	96 (49)
Off-unit trip	67 (34)
Car transfers	53 (27)
Training in a simulation lab	27 (14)

^*The denominators used to calculate percentages differ between patients on the basis of number of respondents to individual items.