Fast Facts
RDNS provides a range of healthcare services to over 10,000 people a day including:
- general and specialist nursing services to people in their homes and into seniors villages
- a range of programs aimed at supporting people with chronic diseases such as Diabetes
- programs that reduce hospital length of stay
- in-home tailored cancer management and complex technical nursing services that effectively act as a substitute to hospital
- a world class health call centre, staffed by nurses, to provide advice and information
- training and education programs, for nurses and other healthcare staff specialising in aged care and seniors living health management
- mobile telehealth solutions to monitor and care for people in their own homes
- expert consultancy and management of seniors living developments, including feasibility studies, master planning, design and development and project management
Over 2,000 staff work at RDNS, of which 1,200 are district nurses. RDNS nurses make over 2 million client visits, deliver over 870,000 hours of direct care and travel over almost 10 million kilometres to provide home based nursing care to more than 37,000 clients each year, 10,500 clients per day.
The organisation also aims to help Melbourne's homeless via its Homeless Person's Program. The program provides "...holistic healthcare to people experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless," and also provides a private nursing service through RALLY Healthcare.
As a result of the mobile nature of RDNS’ business, the number of clients and the geographical spread of its workforce, RDNS nurses use mobile computers that serve them as a vital communications tool. The devices use intuitive interfaces, wireless connectivity, applications that integrate with nurses’ work priorities and the ability to access and transfer real-time data. The mobile computers have significantly reduce the need for paper-based administration, enabling RDNS nurses to spend more time on nursing practice.
Read more about this topic: Royal District Nursing Service (Victoria)
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