A nurse has described harrowing details of short-staffing at a nursing home in the east of the country over the Easter weekend.
The nurse was asked to work in a temporary capacity last Friday and Saturday. She told RTÉ's Morning Ireland that she was the only nurse on duty after receiving a desperate phone call from the owner. "Covid had got into the home and it had taken a number of days to confirm.
In the delay between getting patients tested and the positive results, almost all of the staff had been in. "All of their nursing staff and healthcare assistants had to self isolate. "The number of times the owner had booked agency staff, overstaffed the home, but people just weren't arriving." She described the difficulties in administering