Community Nursing Care
NDIS community nursing in Adelaide
Clinical care that comes to you.
Community nursing is clinical care delivered by registered nurses in your own home rather than a clinic or hospital. Under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) it's funded where your nursing needs relate to your disability. Complete Choice provides it across Adelaide, within 100km of the CBD.
Complete Choice is registered for Community Nursing Care and for High Intensity Daily Personal Activities. One organisation provides both the nurse and the daily support workers, working from the same plan.
What do our nurses do?
Our registered nurses deliver clinical care in your home that relates to your disability. That includes wound care, medication management, continence and catheter care, PEG feeding and diabetes management. They also write care plans and train the support workers who help you each day. The full list:
Wound care and dressings · medication management, administration and webster pack oversight · continence assessment and management · catheter care · PEG and enteral feeding support · diabetes management including insulin · chronic condition monitoring · post-hospital and post-surgical care · health assessments and care planning.
How do nurses train and delegate to support workers?
A registered nurse assesses what’s needed, writes the plan, trains the support workers who deliver it, and reviews their competency against that person’s plan. The nurse stays accountable for the clinical decision. The workers deliver it daily, with clear escalation points.
This is the part that decides whether a complex arrangement holds together. Without it, an instruction sits in a file and the 7am worker improvises. With it, the instruction reaches the person delivering the support. For coordinators, this is the question behind the question: can this provider hold a complex participant safely. For Support Coordinators
Nursing inside SIL and short stays
In a Complete Choice Supported Independent Living (SIL) home, or during a short term respite stay, community nursing can be part of your support — which is often what makes respite possible for someone with complex health needs. Ask us what that would look like for you.
What does the NDIS fund, and what doesn’t it?
The NDIS funds nursing where the need relates to your disability. Acute illness, hospital care and general health needs stay with the health system and your GP. The line isn’t always obvious — if you’re not sure, ask. We’d rather tell you it’s a GP matter than take a referral we can’t fund.
How does it start?
It starts with a phone call to our office. You tell us what you need, or what you're not sure about. Then we look at your plan and funding, meet you, and agree in writing what your support looks like. Support begins after that, with review dates built in so it keeps fitting your life.
Call us.
08 7009 4462. Tell us what you need — or what you're not sure about. Working that out is a normal first conversation.
Plan it together.
We look at your plan and your funding, meet you, and agree what support looks like — in writing, before anything starts.
Support begins.
With review dates built in, so it keeps fitting as your life changes.
Questions people ask
What is NDIS community nursing?
Community nursing is clinical care from registered nurses in your own home, rather than a clinic or hospital. The NDIS funds it where the need relates to your disability, for example dysphagia, diabetes management, continence, or wound and pressure care for slow-to-heal wounds. Complete Choice provides it across Adelaide, within 100km of the CBD.
Are your nurses registered?
Yes. Complete Choice's nurses are registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). Separately, Complete Choice is registered with the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission for Community Nursing Care, and that registration runs through 9 December 2027. It carries three conditions, and all of them are listed on Complete Choice's NDIS registration page.
Will the NDIS pay for nursing?
Yes, where the need relates to your disability. The NDIS calls these disability-related health supports, and they can include a nurse, for example to change a urinary catheter. Hospital care, medicines, and the diagnosis and treatment of health conditions stay with the health system. If you're not sure which side a need falls on, talk to your doctor or ask us.
Can a community nurse help with my medication?
Yes. A Complete Choice nurse can administer your medication, oversee your Webster pack, and train your support workers to prompt or assist you safely. The NDIS doesn't pay for the medicines themselves; those come through the health system. Your doctor still decides which medicines you take. Call our office to talk through what you need.
Can a nurse do wound care at home?
Yes. A Complete Choice registered nurse can do wound care and dressings in your home, including complex wounds. The NDIS may fund wound and pressure care for slow-to-heal wounds where it relates to your disability. If a wound isn't related to your disability, the NDIS won't fund its care. Call our office and we'll tell you honestly which applies.
Can a nurse train my support workers?
Yes. A registered nurse assesses what you need, writes the plan, trains your support workers, and reviews their competency against your specific plan. The NDIS may fund this training. Before anyone supports you with a disability-related health task, they must be trained for that task, specifically for you, by an appropriately qualified health professional, and be competent to do it.
Can I get nursing in a SIL home?
Yes, where you need it. Complete Choice is registered for both Community Nursing Care and Supported Independent Living (SIL), so community nursing can be part of your support in one of our homes, or during a short term respite stay. What it looks like depends on your needs, so call our office and a person will talk it through with you.
Talk to someone who can actually answer.
Call 08 7009 4462 and you'll reach a person who knows what's available today — not a call centre reading a screen.
08 7009 4462Mobile 0424 000 751