"You have to live with some risk, it's part of the profession". Specialist ambulance nurses' perceptions of assignments involving ongoing lethal violence.

The findings highlight the need to ensure that the ambulance service is a learning organisation, where clinicians with experience of an ongoing lethal violence event can pass on and share their knowledge with colleagues to prepare mentally for such an event. Potentially compromised security in the ambulance service when dispatched to ongoing lethal violence incidents needs to be addressed.