title: Providing the best care.
abstract: Q What does your job entail? A My job title states that I am the matron of a 45-bed nursing home. The term 'matron' is one that I have stuck to as older people relate more easily to it than they do to, say, 'nurse manager'. In reality, when you have your own business you must be able to turn your hand to a number of jobs and tasks. Joy, our deputy, takes a share of the nursing responsibility from my shoulders, but basically I am responsible, with my husband, for 45 patients, all their needs and for all our staff.