Nursing
Clinical Care Close to home.
Community nursing brings clinical care out of the hospital and into the places people actually live: at home, in a clinic, or by telehealth. Our AHPRA-registered nurses screen for health risks and write the care plans support workers follow. They train the people providing daily support, review how a condition is tracking, and build one accurate medication list.
Optimum Health Solutions covers the Illawarra, the South Coast and South West Sydney, with clinics at Nowra and Liverpool. One referral can start a whole cycle of support.
Participants and Families
For referrers and Support Coordinators
How can I fund Nursing access at Optimum Health Solutions?
Nursing supports may be funded through an NDIS plan, depending on how that plan is set up. Providers can also engage us directly, which is common for training and documentation work that sits with the organisation rather than one participant.
Plan-managed, self-managed and agency-managed participants can all access our nurses. We handle the service agreements and the reporting.
What Do Our Nurses Help With?
Direct Clinical
Care
You come home from hospital and the dressing changes are suddenly your job. Our nurses can come to you and do them, and tell your doctor if anything looks like it is going the wrong way.
Chronic Disease Management
Most days you are the one managing it. Our nurses check in between your doctor visits and go over the bits you are unsure about,
however many times you need to ask.
other ways our nurses provide clinical care
1.
NURSE-LED SCREENING
When this would be relevant: you notice that something has changed and nobody is sure what it is yet.
An Optimum Health Solutions nurse works through evidence-based screening tools with you, records what they find, and connects you with the right practitioner.
This is offered within clinic, at home, in the community, or delivered via telehealth.
2.
NURSING BUILT SUPPORT PLAN
For people with chronic and complex health needs, a nurse reviews and documents the supports that have already been identified and established, then develops a care plan that the team can follow. The plan outlines the person’s care requirements, the supports in place, roles and responsibilities, and actions to take if the person’s condition changes. This ensures care is delivered consistently, safely, and in accordance with existing clinical recommendations.
3.
High Intensity Skills Training
Optimum nurses offer training for support workers, carers and participants in high intensity daily personal activities, with formal competency sign-off.
Enteral feeding, epilepsy and seizure support, catheter support, complex bowel care, subcutaneous injections.
We also offer training on management plans for asthma and anaphylaxis too.
4.
Clinical Review and Monitoring
5.
Medication Reconciliation
and Support
6.
SOMETHING ELSE
WHAT OTHER SUPPORTS DO OPTIMUM PROVIDE?
Screening often turns up something that belongs with another practitioner.
Optimum Health Solutions offers 7 other disciplines within the one organisation.
Physiotherapy
Speech Pathology
Exercise Physiology
Podiatry
Occupational Therapy
Positive Behaviour Support
Dietetics
NDIS Assessments & Reports
Your Nursing Care Cycle
Get in touch
We match you with a nurse
Screening or assessment
A plan built around the person
Training for the people providing support
Review and renewals
Can I use my NDIS Plan to access Nursing?
Start with a conversation
One Team, All Under One Roof
Funding Made Simplier
Referrer’s Hub
Referring a participant with complex health needs?
The Referrers Hub has our referral pathways, service areas and is where you can view our up-to-date and live capacity.
Where we offer Nursing and Community Care
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need a referral to see a nurse?
Are your nurses registered?
Can a provider engage you directly, rather than through a participant's plan?
What if I need something that is not listed here?
Ask. The list on this page is a set of examples, not the limit of what our nurses do. Tell us the health need and we will give you a straight answer.
How Can We Support You Today?
Our Core Services
A team of caring health professionals working together around you.
From physiotherapy and exercise rehabilitation to speech pathology, dietetics, podiatry and more, your care is coordinated not fragmented.
NDIS Disability Services
Navigating the NDIS can feel overwhelming. You don’t have to do it alone.
As a registered NDIS provider, we align therapy with your plan and help map out a clear and sustainable pathway so funding works for you.
Careers at Optimum
Do meaningful work without burning out.
Join a supportive multidisciplinary team where mentoring, collaboration and professional growth are part of everyday practice.
Living your Optimum life
Speech and Language Development
Most parents who ask about speech and language development are not worried about a textbook. They are worried about their own child. Should a 2-year-old be putting words together? Is it normal that a 4-year-old still says “wabbit” for rabbit? The honest answer is that there is a wide normal
Functional Communication
Maybe a child or adult you support gets frustrated, cries, pushes things away, or shuts down when they cannot get a message across. The gap is rarely about effort. It is about the tools they have to communicate. Functional communication is the Speech Pathology word for any reliable way a
Speech Pathology Home Practice
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