Nurse: The day in the life of a director of public health nursing is never boring unfortunately. Basically it's problem solving, it's advice being you know like an adviser – I'm an advisor on the palatable community care – we're doing a survey at the moment on workforce planning for palatable care, it's representing the directors of public health nursing in all sort of areas – workforce planning was one, palatable care was another one there is a few others : managing deprived area of Cork City 180,000 population with six to seven areas of high depredation. So working with multi agencies like we have just put in a proposal for EU funding for a babies project to work with all different people in the city who work with the the Niche North side health initiative - not young Knocknaheeny, city hall community organisations to work with young families, mothers and babies to improve the povertys from that aspect.
Rachel: Can you tell me about your role in ICHN …show more content…
Now there is a bit of that happening but it needs to be developed further and also we need to get more money from them to be able to particulate so that we'd have – I don't whether it's a president is one thing but to have you know a rep not .... The President is the patron and it's grand to have a president but we need to have somebody working full time - you know a full Council member or somebody who representing the ICHN.
And I am a member of research group but unfortunately, I have been an absent member because I participate on Teleconferences - I've only been to Dublin once but I'm much more an advisor in an advisory capacity as what needed as far as doing any research I'm not doing any research myself – don't have the