Service Today
RDNS provides a 24 hour home nursing and homecare service to the people throughout Australia. The organisation aims to improve the health conditions of clients with tailored nursing care, enabling them to remain independent in the comfort and privacy of their own home. RDNS provides the following nursing and healthcare services:
Nursing Services
- Aged Care
- Assessment
- Care after discharge from hospital
- Case management
- Continence management
- Cystic fibrosis
- Dementia Care
- Diabetes services
- Health promotion
- Haemophilia management
- HIV/AIDS
- Respiratory care
- Stomal therapy
- Medicines management
- Wound management
- Palliative care and bereavement support
HomeCare Services
- Domestic Assistance
- Personal Care
- Respite Care
- Safety-related home and garden maintenance
- Assessment
- Monitoring
- Overnight services
- Transport to appointments
- Services vary according to locations
RDNS also operates a fee-for-service division called RALLY Healthcare. RALLY Healthcare provides nursing care from any location, whether it be an aged care facility, a workplace or even a school. It was devised as a way of responding to the vastly changing heathcare needs of today's Melbourne Community.
Read more about this topic: Royal District Nursing Service (Victoria)
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