Nursing Care

Nursing Care is a form of clinical support delivered by qualified, registered nurses in your own home. Under the Support at Home program, Nursing Care sits within the Clinical Supports category, alongside services like Allied Health (Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Podiatry, and others) and Nutrition Support. 

A nurse working with you at home might focus on: 

• Medication management, ensuring medications are taken correctly, safely, and on schedule 

• Wound care management, monitoring and treating wounds to support proper healing and prevent infection 

• Clinical assessments, tracking changes in your health, mobility, or condition over time 

• Continence care (clinical), providing clinical support and management for continence-related health needs 

Nursing Care often works alongside other services in your Care Plan, providing the clinical oversight that ties everyday support together into one coordinated picture of your health and wellbeing. 

Because Nursing Care falls under Clinical Supports, it is fully government-funded, with no co-contribution required, regardless of your income or assets. This means if you’re eligible for Support at Home and Nursing Care is included in your Care Plan, there’s no out-of-pocket cost standing between you and the clinical support you need. 

If you’re not yet receiving government funding, Chris Barnard Health also offers privately funded Nursing Care, so a funding gap never has to mean going without the clinical support you need. 

One of the biggest reasons families choose Chris Barnard Health is our people. We’re proud to have one of the largest in-house care workforces in Victoria, meaning the nurse supporting you is trained, supported, and guided directly by us, not agency staff who come and go. Every nurse is carefully selected, thoroughly screened, and trained in aged care best practice, safety, communication, cultural awareness, and person-centred care. We choose people we would trust to care for our own family members. 

Your Care Partner and nursing team take the time to understand your health history, your goals, and what matters most to you, not just your clinical diagnosis. Your care is documented in a personalised Care Plan built around your specific needs, reviewed and adjusted as your circumstances change. 

Nursing Care doesn’t happen in isolation. Your nurse’s assessments and observations are shared with your Care Partner and, where relevant, your allied health and personal care team, through regular case conferencing and care note reviews. This means a change in your health, however small, gets picked up and responded to quickly, not lost between visits. 

Your first month with us includes a comprehensive nursing assessment, so we understand your health, safety, and wellbeing needs from the very beginning. Your nurse will work with you to establish a clear plan for medication, wound care, or any other clinical needs, and check in regularly to make sure that plan continues to fit as your health changes. It’s normal for a routine to be refined over the first few visits as your care team gets to know you. 

Nursing Care, like every service we provide, is guided by your rights under the Aged Care Act 2024. This includes the right to: 

• Make decisions about your care and treatment 

• Be treated with dignity and respect throughout every visit 

• Be involved in planning your services, including who delivers them and how 

• Understand your care and ask questions at any point 

• Speak up if something isn’t right, with the assurance that your concerns will be taken seriously 

If something ever goes wrong, we respond using a structured, best-practice approach called open disclosure, informing you promptly, listening to your observations, and working with you to put things right. Transparency isn’t an afterthought for us, it’s built into how we operate. 

Nursing Care is available to eligible Support at Home participants, generally people aged 65 or over (50 or over for First Nations people) who need coordinated services to help them stay safely at home, or younger people with a disability, dementia, or other care needs not met through other specialist services. Nursing Care is also a core part of the Restorative Care Pathway and the End-of-Life Pathway, for those needing more intensive clinical support during recovery or in their final months of life. 

A team that talks to each other. Because your nurse’s assessments and observations are shared directly with your Care Partner and wider care team, a health change, whether that’s a wound not healing as expected or a new symptom, is acted on quickly, not left until your next scheduled review. Nursing Care at Chris Barnard Health was never designed to be a standalone visit, it’s one part of a genuinely connected picture of your health. 

Call us on 1300 602 469 to find out more about Nursing Care and how it fits within Support at Home or fill out our contact form on the website and a member of our team will be in touch.