Nurses' experiences of palliative end-of-life care in patients at risk of a carotid blowout syndrome: A qualitative exploration.

Purpose: Hospital nurses play an important role in providing palliative end-of-life care, for example for patients with carotid blowout. In such cases, dying is a severe event in which exsanguination occurs. Little is known about nurses' experiences regarding care to patients at risk of a carotid blowout.

Compassion: Use it or lose it?: A study into the perceptions of novice nurses on compassion: A qualitative approach.

Background: Nurses and patients believe compassion to be one of the most important professional values. However, it is not known which factors influence compassionate behaviour in practice. There is a need for insight whether or not compassion in nursing practice flourishes or falters.