Nursing Services
DCS offers professional nursing care, including assessments, wound care, medication support, and respiratory services, ensuring quality care at home or in the community.
Nursing
DCS can provide nursing services to you or your loved one with a registered nurse. We flexibly provide help with education and care to ensure your nursing needs are met.
Our services include:
● Nursing assessments
● COPD education
● Heart failure education
● Wound care
● Catheter Care
● Administration of medication
● CPAP education
● Home Oxygen Assessments
Respiratory Services
Our registered nurse has extensive experience and knowledge of respiratory conditions and home oxygen assessments and set-ups.
Our respiratory services include
Home oxygen assessments
- physical assessment
- arterial blood gases test
- A 6-minute walk test
- Statewide equipment program (SWEP) paperwork completion and lodgement
- Follow-up oxygen delivery, set-up and education
- Follow-up patients in their home post set-up of equipment
Chronic disease education and support
- Asthma education and support
- Asthma action plan assessment
- Review inhaler and spacer technique
- Cleaning of inhaler devices
Who would benefit from this service?
This service is suitable for people with various respiratory concerns including:
- Patients requiring home oxygen or support with existing home oxygen.
- Aged care package clients requiring assistance to process application
- Asthma
- Bronchiectasis
- Emphysema
- ILD – Chronic Bronchitis and Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Other respiratory or cardiac condition
- Palliative patients requiring home oxygen
- DVA patients
How do I access this service?
To access our respiritory services, you can gain a referral through:
- General practitioners
- Specialists
- Hospitals
- Case manager or package provider
- Other health professionals
