Time and compassion
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Time and compassion

Gill Home Hospital Macmillan nurse, In Doncaster
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Macmillan nursing can be highly rewarding. Hardly a day goes by without a student nurse or new staff nurse approaching me on the ward to ask how to become a Macmillan nurse. General nurses see that Macmillan nurses can spend time with patients and perhaps this is what attracts them to the role.

Nursing Standard. 18, 18, 24-24. doi: 10.7748/ns.18.18.24.s37

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14 January 2004 / Vol 18 issue 18

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