NDIS Community Nursing in Adelaide

NDIS community nursing in Adelaide is nursing care at home for health needs that are related to your disability. Kindora Connect is registered with the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission for community nursing care, and our nursing support is delivered by registered or enrolled nurses.

Nurses can provide the care directly, and they can also train the support workers and family members who help you every day.

What does NDIS community nursing include?

The NDIS funds disability-related health supports, which can include a nurse. Depending on your needs and your plan, community nursing can cover:

• wound and pressure care for slow-to-heal wounds
• urinary catheter care, including catheter changes by a registered nurse
• complex bowel care and continence care
• support with enteral feeding, for example through a PEG
• health checks and monitoring related to your disability, with escalation to your GP if something changes
• training your support workers or family in a specific task for you, such as preventing pressure sores

Community nursing does not replace your GP, hospital or other health services. The NDIS does not fund health services such as hospital care, medicines or diagnosis and treatment of health conditions.

Who is community nursing for?

It suits participants whose disability creates ongoing health needs that are best managed at home by a nurse. For example:

• you have a catheter that needs regular changing
• you have a pressure wound that is slow to heal and needs regular dressing
• you use a PEG and your support workers need training to support your feeds safely
• your bowel care routine needs a nurse to plan and review it

For older people receiving Support at Home services rather than the NDIS, nursing works differently. See the counterpart callout below.

How is community nursing funded under the NDIS?

Nursing is a type of disability-related health support. The NDIS only funds it when it relates to your disability. You usually need evidence from your treating health professional to have it included in your plan.

Your plan can also fund a qualified practitioner to train the people who support you, when someone else can safely do the task day to day. For example, a registered nurse can train your support worker or family to help prevent pressure sores.

Before nursing starts, we agree the nursing tasks, visit frequency and costs with you in a service agreement.

What does a typical nursing visit look like?

At the first visit, the nurse talks with you about your health needs, reads any plan from your GP or specialist, and agrees with you how each task will be done. Later visits follow that plan, such as a dressing change or a catheter change.

The nurse records what they did and anything they noticed, and tells you and, with your consent, your GP or family if something needs follow-up.

How do we keep nursing care safe?

Nursing care is delivered by registered or enrolled nurses with current registration. When a nurse trains a support worker for a task, the training is for that task and for you specifically.

As a registered provider, we deliver community nursing in line with the NDIS Practice Standards. Read how to make an NDIS referral to see what health information helps us plan nursing support.