Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed)

10:40 am

Ms Caroline Thomas:

It is always on a Friday evening that we get a call. We work fantastically with the home care teams. Again, the majority are adults. If the teams had paediatric nurses, they could advise and give some of the management advice, but they do not have paediatric nurses doing the hands-on care. That is where we get drafted in because the parents, when Friday evening comes, might have been up for four nights in a row and they need somebody to come in and let them go to bed.

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