Compassion in a crisis: How Dominic Simpson helped a patient and her family during an obstetric emergency on his final placement

Dominic Simpson

doi:10.7748/ns.31.7.36.s40

Compassion in a crisis: How Dominic Simpson helped a patient and her family during an obstetric emergency on his final placement

Dominic Simpson

School of Health & Life Sciences

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As a third-year nursing student my final placement was with an anaesthetic team. Two months into the placement, the emergency telephone rang at 4am, with the message 'obstetric airway emergency' - a call that no nurse or midwife wants to receive.

Original language	English
Article number	DOI: 10.7748/ns.31.7.36.s40
Pages (from-to)	36-36
Number of pages	1
Journal	Nursing standard : official newspaper of the Royal College of Nursing
Volume	31
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7748/ns.31.7.36.s40
Publication status	Published - 2016

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Compassion in a crisis: How Dominic Simpson helped a patient and her family during an obstetric emergency on his final placement

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