NDIS supports
NDIS community nursing at home
Wound care, continence, diabetes support, injections and catheter care in your own home, from a registered NDIS provider led by a registered nurse.
NDIS community nursing is clinical care from a nurse in your home, paid for from your NDIS plan when the health need is caused by your disability. Trailblazer Community Care is registered for community nursing care and provides it across Logan, Ipswich, Brisbane and Redland Bay. That covers wound care, continence, diabetes support, injections, catheter and stoma care, and help managing your medicines.
Our nursing is led by Exavier Rikonda, a registered nurse with 14 years of nursing experience.
Nursing care we provide
- Wound care, including pressure injuries and slow-to-heal wounds
- Continence assessment and help choosing and using continence aids
- Diabetes monitoring and insulin support
- Injections ordered by your doctor
- Urinary catheter changes and catheter care
- Stoma care and checks of the skin around it
- Medication management, including reviewing what you take with your GP
- Training support workers and family members on tasks they can safely do between visits
Each visit is also a chance to catch problems early. A wound that has stalled or a catheter that keeps blocking is something we raise with your GP before they turn into a hospital admission.
How nursing differs from support work
A support worker helps with daily life, such as showering, meals and getting out, plus some health tasks they have been trained for. A nurse assesses, makes clinical judgements and does tasks that need a nursing qualification.
The line isn't always where people expect. Under NDIS rules a trained support worker can give a PEG feed or empty a catheter bag, and our high intensity and complex care service does exactly that. Changing the catheter itself is nursing work, and so is deciding whether a wound is getting worse.
In practice the two often go together. The nurse visits, sets up the plan and trains the workers. The support workers carry out the daily parts and report changes back. When the nurse and the support workers are part of the same organisation, the report reaches the nurse faster.
How NDIS community nursing is funded
The NDIS calls this kind of care disability-related health supports. It lists supports for wound and pressure care, continence, diabetes management and dysphagia among others, and gives the example of funding for a registered nurse who can change a urinary catheter.
The NDIS only funds these supports when they relate to your disability. Care the health system provides, such as hospital services, ambulance transport, medicines or palliative care, isn't funded by the NDIS. To get nursing into your plan you usually need evidence from your treating doctor or health professional, and the NDIA makes the decision.
No provider can approve NDIS funding. If a provider tells you they can get your funding approved, be careful. We can explain what evidence tends to help, and we'll work with your support coordinator or my NDIS contact. We don't provide support coordination or plan management.
Talk to a registered nurse-led team
Call 1300 822 333 or send a referral. We reply to every enquiry within 12 to 24 hours.
Asking a question does not commit you to anything.
How nursing starts
Get in touch
Call 1300 822 333, email admin@trailblazercommunitycare.com or send a referral. We reply within 12 to 24 hours.
Check the details
We look at your plan, any doctor's orders and what supplies you already have.
Nursing assessment
A nurse visits you at home, talks through your health and agrees a care plan with you.
Regular visits
Visits happen on the agreed days. The plan is reviewed as your needs change or after any hospital stay.
Nursing visits are available on weekends and after hours, as well as through the week.
If you're a hospital discharge planner or GP, include current wounds and dressing orders, devices such as a catheter or stoma, and any medicines that need nursing help. The earlier we hear about a discharge date, the smoother the first week at home tends to be.
Nursing for veterans
We also provide community nursing for veterans, war widows and widowers. DVA has its own rules, so that service has its own page: DVA community nursing. If you have both an NDIS plan and a DVA card, talk to us before care starts and we'll help you work out which program pays for what.
Our standards
Nursing in someone's home is done without a colleague in the next room, so supervision and clear processes matter. How we screen staff and handle incidents is set out on our quality and safeguarding page.
Questions about NDIS community nursing
What does an NDIS community nurse do?
A community nurse provides clinical care at home, such as wound care, continence assessment, diabetes support, injections, catheter changes and stoma care. They also assess changes in your health, liaise with your GP, and train support workers and family on tasks they can safely do between visits.
Does the NDIS pay for wound care?
It can. The NDIS lists wound and pressure care for slow-to-heal wounds among its disability-related health supports, as long as the wound relates to your disability. Wounds from an illness or injury unrelated to your disability are usually a health system matter. The NDIA decides what goes in your plan.
Can a support worker do my nursing tasks instead?
Some tasks, yes. A support worker can do certain tasks, like PEG feeds or emptying a catheter bag, if trained specifically for you and assessed as competent. Tasks that need clinical judgement, like catheter changes or assessing a wound that's getting worse, stay with a nurse.
Do I need a referral from my GP?
You don't need one to contact us. You'll usually need your doctor's input for orders such as dressings or injections, and evidence from a health professional helps the NDIA decide whether to fund nursing. We can tell you what's useful when you call.
Do you provide nursing in Ipswich and Redland Bay?
Yes. We provide NDIS community nursing in Logan, Ipswich, Brisbane and Redland Bay, with our office in Flagstone in the City of Logan. Call 1300 822 333 to check visit days for your suburb.
Can I get nursing if I have a DVA card and an NDIS plan?
Yes, we provide both NDIS and DVA community nursing. Each program has rules about which care it pays for, so we'll go through your situation with you before visits start and make sure the right program is used.
- High intensity & complex carePEG feeding, catheter, bowel and wound care by workers trained on your plan and signed off by a registered nurse.
- DVA community nursingClinical nursing at home for veterans, war widows and widowers, overseen by a registered nurse with 14 years of nursing experience.
- High intensity supports explainedThe eight supports the NDIS Commission calls high intensity, how workers are trained for them, and what to ask a provider.
Talk to a registered nurse-led team
Call 1300 822 333 or send a referral. We reply to every enquiry within 12 to 24 hours.
Asking a question does not commit you to anything.