Compassion is crucial to good care
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Compassion is crucial to good care

Susan Turton Third-year nursing student, University of South Wales

A personal experience of poor end of life care spurred one student on to offer the best support she could to others

Throughout nurse training, we are taught the importance of delivering holistic care and involving patients and their families in decisions about care and treatment.

Nursing Standard. 32, 3, 36-36. doi: 10.7748/ns.32.3.36.s41

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