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Nine out of ten nurses providing excellent care in a patient's dying days sounds pretty good. But KIM CARTER asks if that's good enough if the memory that lingers longest with the patient is a bad experience due to the tenth nurse's care…

Initiating difficult conversations with the elderly or very ill about end-of-life care is very much the “bread and butter” of patient-centred nursing care.  April 16 is designated Conversations that Count Day to promote advance care planning (ACP) read on... 

Palliative care nurse advisor ANNE MORGAN asks whether feeding the dying is the right thing to do or simply the easiest option when faced with families who see withdrawing nutrition as "cruel" or "starving the person to death".

Nurses nationwide are invited to take part in a major online survey hoping to pinpoint the real differences between a staff nurse and a specialist nurse’s daily work.

Not ignoring “just a smoker’s cough” and other symptoms could see more of the 2000 Kiwis diagnosed with lung cancer each year living longer and better quality lives. FIONA CASSIE talks to lung cancer and respiratory nurse specialists about how nurses can play a part.

New Zealanders are more likely to die in residential aged care than most countries around the world. Some say our rest homes and hospitals could be called “de facto hospices” but without the resourcing or recognition to offer palliative care at the same level. FIONA CASSIE finds out more.

Initiating difficult conversations with the elderly or very ill about their end-of-life care is very much the ‘bread and butter’ of patient-centred nursing care. April 16 has been designated Conversations that Count Day as a national awareness day for advance care planning (ACP). Find out more ePostcards and eLearning in this sensitive but sensible area.

We look to nurses as learners, educators, and leaders in this edition. Read on about teaching fledgling nurses in the classroom and on the ward, fostering leadership skills, nurses sharing their career tales, and milestones past and future in the recognition of competence and professional development.

To celebrate International Nurses Day this year Nursing Review invited district health boards across the country to contribute stories on nursing ‘heroes’ in their region. We got stories back on just some of the unsung, innovative, compassionate, high achievers and dedicated nurses that make up the New Zealand nursing workforce.

FIONA CASSIE talks to New Zealand Wound Care Society president Wayne Naylor about his wound care career, fungating wounds, and a palliative approach to wound care.

TAIMA CAMPBELL ‘plain packages’ the need to tell the truth about the tobacco industry.

Principal researcher VALERIE NORTON and novice research nurse LEANNE WALDEN reflect on how their respective roles in a palliative care research study flowed on to influence their nursing and research practice.

BRIEFS INCLUDING:Nga Manukura pilot to commence/ Workplace computer access/ Avoid food list released/ Cancer programme for Maori

When managing malignant wounds a holistic approach is needed, reports Annie May in Australia’s Nursing Review