Empathy is an essential component of professional nursing practice. In order to empathise appropriately with patients, it is crucial that nurses appreciate, understand and respond to their patients' experience of illness. This study sought to explore the experiences of 16 people with end stage renal disease on haemodialysis therapy in Ireland. A hermeneutical phenomenological methodology was em...

Abstract Given how rapidly the still-ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has receded from public consciousness since 2021, time is ripe to revisit Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Carlos Fuentes’s Aura inform our present historical moment, particularly both texts are concerned with large-scale disappearance, erasure repression of mass-dead by statist economic interests in wake national traumas – po...