title: Looking after everyone except yourself: the double-edged sword of caring.
abstract: Caring is, in a broad sense, a basic phenomenon of human life (Benner and Wrubel, 1989; Noddings 1999) and an intrinsic part of what it is to be human. In other words, human beings may not consciously choose to care, but caring is inherent in them: it is an activity encountered beyond the boundaries of nursing, and certainly not unique to nursing or to the overtly 'caring' services, such as palliative care provision in the community, hospitals and hospices.
authors.affiliation: University of Worcester. b.nyatanga@worc.ac.uk
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nyatanga
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000523:psychology*; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology