Melissa Bruno is a Nurse Consultant with the Northern Adelaide Palliative Service with over 20 years experience working in palliative care. Melissa has worked in two metropolitan palliative care services and across multiple settings including acute care, community, aged care and in a palliative care unit.  Her passion for palliative care has come from her early childhood exposure to the positive experiences of death and dying and has driven her to change people’s perception of palliative care and end-of-life care.