Nursing services
Capecare enables clients to live independently by attending to their ongoing health care needs in their home.
Access to nursing care at home has many benefits:
- Clients do not need to leave home to visit a practice nurse. If they are in pain or have limited mobility we can provide nursing services within the privacy of home.
- A set day, date and time can be arranged for nursing service so there’s no need to miss out on social outings or family visits.
Capecare has a team of qualified and experienced nurses to assist with at-home clinical care. Our nurses are all registered and follow best practice evidence-based nursing care and guidelines.
Examples of the nursing services Capecare provides:
- Wound assessment and care
- Continence assessments and ongoing continence management
- Urinary catheter changing, education and support
- Administration of medications not provided by support workers, ie injections, pessaries, and enemas
- Organisation of medications and pharmacy liaison
- Diabetes management and support
- Blood pressure monitoring
- Stoma assessment and support
- Gastrostomy assessment and support
- Chronic disease management
- Assessment and supply of specialised dressings, medical equipment, and clinical supplies
- Liaison and communication with your GP about your health and wellbeing
- Support and assessment for Dementia care
- Support and assessment for mental health care
View or download our Nursing Services fact sheet to find out more.
Case study – nursing care at home
Coordinated wound care helping a client remain safely at home
An older community client lives with several complex health conditions, including type 2 diabetes, atrial fibrillation and peripheral vascular disease. She also experiences chronic lower-leg wounds associated with chronic infection and reduced circulation.
The wounds require careful and consistent management. Although courses of antibiotics have temporarily improved the infection, they have repeatedly deteriorated once treatment has finished. Her GP remains closely involved, reviewing the wounds fortnightly and adjusting treatment as required.
Through her Support at Home funding, Capecare’s community nursing team provides regular wound care and clinical monitoring in the comfort and familiarity of the client’s own home. This consistent nursing support helps her avoid unnecessary hospital visits and remain at home wherever it is safe and appropriate for her to do so.
Capecare’s nurses work closely with the client’s GP and are currently liaising with a specialist wound care service to trial a new dressing and management regime. Bringing together the expertise of community nurses, her GP and specialist services means the client can receive coordinated clinical care without needing to leave home for every aspect of her treatment.
As the new regime has only recently commenced, the wound remains chronic and its longer-term outcome is not yet known. However, regular nursing visits provide continuity of care and allow changes or signs of deterioration to be identified and addressed promptly.
The community nursing team also ensures the client’s wounds continue to be managed over weekends, reducing gaps in care and the risk of her condition worsening unnecessarily. This provides reassurance to the client and her loved ones that support remains available beyond standard weekday appointments.
When her needs can no longer be safely managed at home, the nurses communicate with her next of kin and GP and support timely escalation to hospital. This clinical oversight helps ensure hospital care is accessed when it is genuinely required, while avoiding unnecessary admissions wherever possible.
Through coordinated community nursing, the client can continue living in the surroundings she knows, with her comfort, independence and daily routines preserved.
She and her loved ones also have confidence that changes in her condition will be recognised and acted upon promptly.
