title: I should have been with Lisa as she died.
abstract: A mother's experience of the death of her 23-year-old daughter, who died in the Accident and Emergency (A & E) department where access to the resuscitation room (and her daughter) were denied to her. This mother was a senior nursing sister in another department at the same hospital, and she subsequently wrote an open letter to the A & E department, outlining her experience of this traumatic event. It was her hope that this information might help to improve the situation for other families, who might have similar desires and needs, but might not feel they had the right or maybe the articulation skills to express them. Nursing and medical management made the decision not to circulate this open letter to other professionals in the department.
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Gregory
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003643:Death; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D010362:Patients' Rooms