In-Home Nursing

In-home nursing involves a qualified registered nurse, providing care and assistance in your own home. To provide the ultimate flexibility to work within your schedule. Receive the medical assistance you need while avoiding travel and wait times in waiting rooms to see medical professionals.

The convenience of accessing nursing services in your own home, with expert personalised care, will help eliminate your worry, and the care strain family members might experience, as a result. Adaptive Nursing Registered Nurse (RN) can help you recover at home after an injury or medical event, or visit regularly to manage an ongoing condition. Whether you need a little health advice now and again or longer term support, our skilled and experienced RN will be there for you.

To save you a trip to the GP, we provide annual health checks in your home to help you maintain your health and wellbeing. We understand that everyone’s health needs are different, so our caring RN will tailor their services to meet your needs. We will liaise with your GP and any multi disciplinary specialists, including Allied health, as necessary, to ensure your health and ability, to remain in the home, in control while living independently is safe, so your quality of life is maximised.

Our aim, is to ensure you remain healthy and safe at home for as long as you want; to manage all aspects of health care you may need, specific to your health conditions and pre medical history.

Support Options

Travel with a Nurse

Assistance during special events

24 Hour Care - Active & Inactive care

Pay by the hour Nursing care

Hospital to Home Care – travel nurse

In-Home Respite

Palliative – End of Life Care

Clinical Care for Chronic, Acute Health Conditions

Consult Nurse for funding applications – advocacy

If you have any questions about a particular health condition, get in touch.

We care for various conditions, not limited to

Acquired Brain Injury
Alzheimer’s
Dementia
Diabetes Management
Continence Management
Venous disease – ulcer Management
Chronic –Acute Wound care Management
Frail and Aged- decrease in mobility
People with disabilities – NDIS Provider
Hearing and Vision Impairment
Motor Neurone Disease
Multiple Sclerosis
Oedema
Palliative Care
Parkinsons Disease
Stroke

See Pricing

In-Home Nursing (More info)

What is In-Home Nursing?

In-home nursing involves a qualified registered nurse (RN), providing care and assistance in your own home, providing the ultimate flexibility to work within your schedule. Receive the medical assistance you need while avoiding travel and wait times in waiting rooms to see medical professionals.

The convenience of accessing nursing services in your own home, with expert personalised care, will help eliminate your worry, and that of your family. Our registered nurse (RN) from Adaptive Nursing, can help you recover at home after an injury or medical event; visit you as a one off visit, or regularly visit, to manage an ongoing condition. Whether you need a little health advice now and again or longer term support, our skilled and experienced RN will be there for you.

To save you a trip to the GP, we provide annual health checks in your home to help you maintain your health and wellbeing. We understand that everyone’s health needs are different so our caring RN will tailor their services to meet your needs.

We will liaise with your GP and any multi disciplinary specialists, including Allied health, as necessary, to ensure your health and ability, to remain in the home, in control while living independently, is safe, so your quality of life is maximized.

Our aim is to ensure you remain healthy and safe at home for as long as you want; to manage all aspects of health care you may need specific to your health conditions and pre medical health history

In home nursing is a popular alternative to other forms of long-term care, as it allows an individual to receive the best quality clinical care, while remaining in the comfort of their home.

What can an in-home nurse provide?

Our community RN can help you with a wide range of medical, clinical services and psychosocial support. If you don’t see what you need listed below, talk to us to chat, how we can assist you.

Comprehensive nursing assessment
Observation and ongoing health management
Nutrition advice and planning
Proactive diabetes education and management
Falls Prevention https://www.health.qld.gov.au/data/assets/pdf_file/0031/438376/falls-facts-info.pdf
Wound care – wound dressing and management of complex wounds such as post surgical wounds, burns, cellulitis and leg ulcers
Doppler test to determine suitability of compression bandaging therapies to decrease oedema and promote leg ulcer healing.
Compression bandaging management
Medication administration including schedule 8 drugs and injections prescribed – as authorized by GP.
Pre and post-acute hospital care – medical and surgical see in Home Nursing
Recovery and rehabilitation nursing
Palliative and End of Life Care see palliative Nursing
Blood glucose monitoring, administration of insulin and diabetic monitoring
Nasogastric and gastrostomy feeding
Catheter irrigation & care, urine testing and continence management
Oxygen, nebuliser, tracheostomy and other respiratory care
Administration of suppositories, enemas & peccaries
Stoma & Colostomy care
Product selection and provision for health, wounds, continence management
Ongoing support, counseling, education & referral
Liaison with Allied Health, Doctors, Community Palliative care Doctors and Nurses
Case Management of client’s health care needs
High intensity clinical care – social – lifestyle support for people with disabilities
Create-update an individual Care Plan for Government Funded Programs; See Nursing Consultant Tab
Patient Advocating Services – . See Nursing Consultant Tab
Assistance in completing Advanced Health Directive (AHCD) QLD form, for your Doctor to sign. Nursing Consultant Tab
Coordinating hospital to home care – “Settling at Home Support” – see Travel Nurse
Continence Nurse to assess your contince needs and apply for government funded Schemes to purchase and have delivery of continence products. See Nursing Consultancy tab
Liaising with your family for home nursing and support services needed
Providing specialist medical care
Personal Care Support- showering, meal prep, social support, shopping assistance
In-Home respite; carer support to provide caregiver a break. See. In-Home Respite

Registered Nurses can also perform the following assessments for Approved Providers or for our clients:

Barthel Index of Activities of Daily Living
Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS)
Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA)
Mobility Assessment
Falls Risk Assessment Tool (FRAT)
Braden Scale Pressure Area Risk Assessment Tool
Abbey Pain Scale
Document a Pain Assessment and Care Plan
Document an Exceptional Pain Care Plan
Psychogeriatric Assessment Scales (PAS) for the 11.5% supplement for People in receipt of a Government Funded Home Care packages.
Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale. (RUDAS) A multicultural Cognitive Assessment Scale
McCaffrey Initial Pain Assessment Tool
Wound Assessment and Treatment Plan
The Abbreviated Mental Test Score (AMTS)
Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE)

Evidence shows that attentive and exceptional In-Home Nursing, with care givers and multidisciplinary health specialist support, working together, equates to a healthier, happier, longer life at home. This means Elders, People with Disabilities, people who are injured, or diseased are less likely to be hospitalised, their need for Nursing Home placement eliminated.

Key Benefits

Get more support by spending less time travelling to - and waiting for - appointments, and more time with the people you love, doing the things that make you happy.

Your safety is supported and prevention of falls risks mitigated, due to eliminating the necessity of mobilising and transferring from home, to car, to clinic. Your health protected from contracting a communicable disease (COVID), seasonal flue, or gastro, minimized; Your energy and well being, conserved for the comfort of your own home

Receive essential medical care in the comfort of your own home.

Personalised and tailored care to your preferences.

Clinical care with Adaptive Nursing, can be covered by your NDIS Plan, Home Care Package (HCP) or National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) plan.