title: Starting out - Patient's appreciative words taught me to look for the good in others.
abstract: I remember clearly my placement in a hospice as a first-year nursing student. My thoughts when I started the placement were that it would involve death and a lot of sadness, but this was not what I found.
authors.affiliation: University of Hertfordshire.
authors.forename: Craig Alvin
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Martins