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Palliative Care Workforce Capacity in Swaziland

Hospice at Home has 5 full time nurses; 1 part time nurse; 1 part time doctor; 5 administrative staff and 150 volunteers. These volunteers play an important role within palliative care. Singer and Dlamini state:

Swaziland Hospice At Home volunteers are called "friends". This is based on the love and friendship between our volunteers and the patients. They develop a friendship relationship with the terminally ill patient, thereby committing their time, money, and energy to help improve the quality of life of terminally ill Swaziland patients.21

Parish Nursing has 30 (retired) nurses in the programme. These nurses work part-time with the support of community members trained in home-based care.

The Salvation Army has 10 nurses in the community care programme; 3 are palliative care trained; 4 are double qualified in nursing and midwifery; 3 nursing assistants work in the clinic. In addition, there are a total of 50 trained community carers and family carers (volunteers) who give assistance.


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