title: Compassion in a crisis.
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: Dominic
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Simpson
mesh_terms: D004630:Emergencies; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008880:Midwifery; D011247:Pregnancy; D013338:Students, Nursing; D006113:United Kingdom