Registered Nursing Led Disability Services in Adelaide and Perth
Nursing—Led Care
Overseen by registered nurses and partnering with allied health, at Hope Circle, our services support NDIS participants with delivering individualized evidence-based services and high intensity supports to build independence and quality of life.
Registered nurse-oversight doesn’t mean receiving services from a registered nurse but it does mean that skillset is internally available to staff and clients when it’s needed.
Our supports and services in supported independent living, in-home and community participation are provided by qualified and screened disability support workers, who are overseen and managed by registered nurses.
For clients with high physical disability needs, our registered nursing led supports and services provide comfort to family/guardians and stakeholders that we have an additional level of monitoring over their loved one.
The Difference Nursing-Led Care Makes
Being led by registered nurses brings benefits to our clients in the level of skill and care applied to oversee their supports and services. Whether in a supported independent living (SIL) or community setting, this type of oversight provides for a better level of care and support to our clients.
Key benefits of Hope Circle’s nursing-led service delivery model are:
- Being fast to respond: our registered nurse oversight makes it quicker to pick up client/participant changes in baseline function or deterioration, so that medical or other interventions can be progressed. We can be more proactive and adopt earlier intervention strategies – rather than being reactive.
- Better advocacy: having someone who “speaks the same language” gives our clients better advocacy with doctors, hospitals, treatment teams and the NDIS. It’s like having someone on your side that speaks their language.
- Identifying changing needs more quickly: operationally we are able to make determinations about medical reviews if we feel there’s been oversight of a client’s condition. From the services Hope Circle provides, we know the client on a personal level, unlike other health and allied health supports who see the client briefly and periodically. We can identify the need for a second opinions and source those.
- Staff training and support: our staff benefit through their training and having someone to ask questions of when on shift. For example, if they are dealing with high intensity supports like a PEG feed, the staff member has someone to ask if they have an issue.
- Better documentation: over time, we believe that the nursing led services will help improve the standard of documentation that we expect across our support staff
COO Heath Nash said, “of these benefits, my experience has been that advocacy in hospital settings is perhaps most important – this can literally get down to the difference between life and death. Where our SIL clients have had limited communication abilities and other family might not be available, we’ve been able to advocate to ensure a client gets the medical supports they need, rather than being discharged early or untreated.”
Our Team
Heath and Esti bring to Hope Circle almost 30 years of nursing care provided across disability, forensics, mental health, oncology and aged care.
In his role as Chief Operating Officer, Heath provides oversight to all our SIL and community participation NDIS participants in Adelaide and Perth. As a Service Coordinator, Esti is closely involved with her clients with their day-to-day care and support needs.
For Esti, her 15+ years of nursing was mainly in a large public hospital, working across the mental health and general medical wards. Heath has previously worked across disability, forensic, oncology and aged care services.
Service Coordinator Esti Colibanschi said, “as the newest member of our office-based team, I appreciate that few providers have the level of nursing experience and oversight that Hope Circle does. This is a benefit to clients throughout their day to day lives, but it can also enable us to provide supports and services through to end of life care.”
Conclusion
Hope Circle is a registered NDIS provider specialising in providing SIL and in-home & community support to individuals with complex disabilities.
Our team has extensive experience working with NDIS participants who have corrections or forensic histories, mental health and physical disabilities.
For more information regarding our services in Adelaide or Perth, please contact us here.