Community Nursing
PowerCare provides NDIS community nursing in Sydney — wound care, catheter and stoma care, medication management, clinical assessment, and supervision and training of support workers delivering high-intensity supports.
What this support is
Community nursing is registered nursing care delivered where the participant lives, rather than in a clinic or a hospital. PowerCare holds NDIS registration group 114 (Community Nursing Care).
It covers clinical assessment and monitoring, wound care, catheter and stoma care, enteral feeding management, medication management, and the clinical delegation, training and supervision that make high-intensity supports safe.
Why it matters that the nurse and the support workers are the same provider
Most participants with complex needs end up with a clinical provider and a support provider who have never met, and a family in the middle relaying messages between them.
Because PowerCare holds both community nursing (114) and high-intensity personal care (104) with Practice Standards Module 1, the registered nurse who writes the support up is the same nurse who trains the support workers, and the same nurse they escalate to. Nobody is playing telephone with a person’s health.
The nurse’s role in high-intensity supports
High-intensity supports are delivered either by registered nurses directly, or by support workers who hold high-intensity training and work under registered-nurse supervision — depending on the participant’s clinical needs and circumstances.
In both cases the registered nurse is accountable: they assess the clinical need, set up the support against the treating team’s plan, train and assess the workers, review how it is going, and are the escalation point when something changes.
What a visit looks like
A nursing visit is targeted. The nurse does the clinical task the plan calls for — the dressing, the catheter change, the medication review, the assessment — documents what they found, and escalates anything that has changed to the participant’s treating team.
Nursing visits and support shifts are scheduled around the participant’s life, not the other way around.
What we don’t do
PowerCare does not provide allied health — no occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech pathology or psychology. Our nurses deliver nursing care and clinical supervision against the plans written by the participant’s treating clinicians. We say this plainly because knowing what a provider doesn’t do is as useful as knowing what it does.
How to start
Call us and tell us what the clinical need is. A registered nurse reviews it, and you get an honest answer about whether we can deliver it and when.
One team, not a referral chain.
Most participants need more than one of these. Every support below is delivered by the same PowerCare team, under the same registration.
Tell us what's happening.
One call. A real person. An honest answer about whether we can help — including if the answer is no. Registered NDIS provider in Sydney.