Stuart conducts training workshops for nurses. “More than just providing technical training, part of my job is to motivate staff. I try to remind them that we’re doing more than a job-we’re performing a public health service. It’s close to a calling.”
Stuart recognizes that motivating the patients is an even more difficult task. “It’s very hard,” says Stuart. “In my experience, patients are the best motivators of other patients. So what we try to do is to identify patient advocates because they are the only ones who can share what it means to feel discriminated, ostracized, overwhelmed-all the aspects of their life that have changed because of the disease.”