Home Nursing Service
GV Health offers a range of community focused home-based nursing services for eligible members of the diverse Goulbourn Valley community.
District Nursing Services (DNS)
GV Health District Nursing Services seeks to provide comprehensive tailored general and specialised nursing care to meet the individulaised needs of our consumers. DNS employs a highly qualified team of healthcare professionals including clinical wound and continence nurse consultants, diabetes educators, stomal therapists, registered and enrolled nurses.
DNS aims to provide holistic, patient-centered accessible nursing care to promote client’s independence, health and wellbeing in the comfort of their own home.
DNS services include:
- Assistance with medication
- Catheter care
- Diabetes’s assessment
- Wound care management and assessment
- Palliative care nursing
- Education
- Stoma care
- Post-acute nursing care following your discharge from hospital
- Monitoring and support of people with chronic illness
This service is supported by funding from the Commonwealth and Victorian Governments under the Community Home Support Programme (CHSP)
Regional Continence Service
The regional Continence Service provides patient-centered continence assessments to offer advice and education to people of all ages and abilities who are experiencing bladder and/or bowel management problems, such as bladder and bowel incontinence. The continence service works with you to receive the appropriate treatments or procedures ordered by your local doctor or specialist.
The Regional Continence Service can:
- Provide continence assessment
- Recommend different aids and equipment
- Devise a care plan
- Providing education and advice
- Provide referrals to other specialists or health services
- Give advice on funding options to help your management plan
- Help you stay healthy inside and out
Our goal is to help you stay active at home and in your community.
Who are GV Health’s home nursing services available to?
GV Health’s home nursing services are available to consumers who have been referred from a clinical service within GV Health and people in the community who are referred to GV Health’s outpatient and community services.
How do I access GV Health’s home nursing services?
To access GV Health’s home nursing service is via referral only. To arrange a referral, please speak to your GP or treating team.
What will happen during the nurse’s visit?
Once your referral has been received, one of our clinical coordinators will contact you. You will be asked a series of questions regarding visiting your home, prior to your first home visit.
We request that all clients refrain from smoking and that all pets are restrained or kept in another area of the home when the nurse visits.
You may be required to pay a fee for your nursing service. This fee depends on the specialty nursing that you require, your individual circumstances and entitlements. If you are requiring wound care you may be charged according to the products that are required for your care. These costs will be explained to you prior to the nurse’s visit.
During your assessment the staff members will focus on how they can assist you to achieve your best health outcomes. Assessments may include:
- A physical assessment
- Discussion regarding your goals for your health, and strategies to reach them
- Access or referral to other service providers
If you have any queries or concerns regarding any aspects of the service being provided to you, please contact the Manager of Home Nursing Services on 1800 222 582.
- ADDRESS
Community Health @ GV Health
121-135 Corio Street
Shepparton, 3630
- CONTACT
Emergency: 000
Phone: 1800 222 582 (Option 2)
Nurse on call: 1300 606 024
for non life threatening injury/illness
- REFERRALS
Phone: 1800 222 582 (Option 2) or send to: HNS-Intake@gvhealth.org.au