Living, loving and leaving

Hospice at home is always focused on quality of life. It’s a combination of medically-driven care, combined with compassion and the involvement of the client’s family and close community. Hospice at home can include palliative care, like symptom and pain management.

Hospice at home means visiting you where you live, or where your loved ones live. Visits and scope of service is mutually agreed. Typically, we’ll visit weekly, or more frequently if mutually agreed. For palliative care, when the end is near, we will often visit daily.

A Nurse Practitioner (NP) is a Registered Nurse with the experience, expertise and authority to diagnose and treat people of all ages with a variety of acute or chronic health conditions. I am a specialised palliative care provider, as well as being a registered Nurse Practitioner.

Nurse Practitioners can prescribe medications, refer to specialists and hospitals, order diagnostic tests and work as key members of a wider healthcare team. Most importantly, nurse practitioners can visit a family member (even in aged care), and give a holistic assessment to you and their GP.

The title “Nurse Practitioner” can only be used by a person who has been endorsed by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.

An initial discussion and assessment is usually 60-90 minutes. There’s an upfront cost for this time.

Once we’ve discussed your health care priorities and agreed on what kind of services are needed and how often, we’ll provide a detailed cost estimate.

We are a private, fee-for-service provider and we deliver services not always funded by Medicare or private health funds. For NDIS clients, rates and services will align with national pricing guidelines.

Depending on what suits your needs you can either:

• Pay a retainer to secure services through Full Circle for use when required; OR
• Pay at the time my service is needed, at an hourly rate. You’ll receive the next available appointment.

We know that sometimes the unexpected can happen.
If Full Circle services are not required, any retainer monies paid will be refunded.

At a time when needs are higher, palliative care helps you and your family to live as well as possible, with emotional and practical nursing support on hand. We teach the primary carers how to deal with the everyday duties if needed.

Because the patient and family are dealing with unknowns, illness and anxiety, it’s important that we help our patients maintain a sense of identity and even optimism. There’s no two situations alike, and palliative care ‘cares for the carer’ too.

Palliative care can leave the family with positive memories, and we work with the family through grief and bereavement if needed.

We can support the wishes of the patient, and help the family ensure future plans are in place and well organised.

Nurse practitioners work with clients afflicted with a wide variety of chronic diseases and conditions, whether that’s heart, lungs, renal, diabetes or neurological problems. We offer disease-disability-age related health support from young adulthood right through to frailties of old age, and everything in between.

Full Circle also trains primary carers and NDIS support staff to provide complex care. NDIS-funded nursing services can include specialised assessment on what services and level of support you need.

I can work with you to explore all the options for care.

We want our clients to enjoy life to the fullest possible extent.

Typically, we visit people in their homes, at an aged care facility, in a hospital or hospice. For disability clients, we can visit supported living accommodation. We work throughout Rockhampton and Yeppoon regions.

Full Circle is located in Rockhampton on the land of the Darumbal people. We acknowledge the traditional owners of this land, the Darumbal people past present and future, and their elders. I pay respect to their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of this community and this region.