‘I feel like I’ve come home’
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‘I feel like I’ve come home’

Lynne Pearce Freelance health journalist

A student placement in a hospice ignited a passion for palliative care in a nurse who years later has returned there as ward sister

A placement in a hospice as a student ignited a passion for palliative care that has never left nurse Beth Hawkins. ‘It struck a chord with me, and I knew it was where I wanted to work,’ says Ms Hawkins.

Nursing Standard. 32, 15, 38-39. doi: 10.7748/ns.32.15.38.s32

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