Nurses in the front lines of palliative care.

Nurses generally serve in the front lines of action; this is particularly true for those involved in palliative care. Informed nurses are essential around the world, especially in developing countries, where 39 of the 51 million individuals who die every year are to be found. Nurses are key in the delivery of palliative care and are in great need of the sort of timely and readily understandable in formation to be provided by the International Journal of Palliative Nursing (IJPN).