Community Nursing Service
Let our dedicated nurses care for you in the comfort of your own home
If you are a patient who has just been discharged from a hospital, cannot leave home because of ill health or requires ongoing specialty care, our community nurses will be there to help you.
Our community nursing service offers continuous holistic care and treatments for patients who require acute, chronic, palliative or rehabilitative support in their homes. Services carried out by our specialised licensed nurses include assessment and interventions such as education, wound care, medication management, chronic disease management, care management, post-surgical care and palliative care.
If your case is more complex, it will be discussed with your attending doctors to ensure you receive the best possible care in your home environment. Under normal circumstances, the service will be provided on a short-term basis until you and your family are confident enough to take over.
The primary objectives of our community nursing programme are not only to deliver a coordinated healthcare service through our supporting network but also to empower patients and their caregivers towards self-reliance in disease management.
Services
General Care
- Tube care (e.g. gastrostomy tube: PEG, nasogastric tubes, urinary catheters and central venous catheters)
- Wound care (e.g. pressure injury ulcers, foot ulcers and fungating wounds)
- Drug administration (e.g. Intravenous injections)
- Specimen collection and testing (e.g. blood taking)
- Home safety assessment and support
Specialty Care
Geriatric care (e.g. nutrition counselling and fall prevention education)
- Continence care (e.g. bladder training, constipation care, removal of urinary catheter)
- Palliative care/end-of-life care
- Postnatal and infant care
- Surgical care (e.g. post-surgical care, wound and drain care, ostomy care)
Chronic Disease Management
- Cardiac rehabilitation (e.g. medication education, guidance on exercise and diet education)
- Pulmonary rehabilitation (e.g. home ventilators and home oxygen therapy care)
- Diabetic care (e.g. blood glucose monitoring and education on insulin injections)
- Stroke rehabilitation (e.g. home safety assessment, guidance on exercise and diet)
Renal care
- Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis and Tenckhoff exit site care
Contact Us
Happy Valley
- Address:
- Community nursing services are arranged upon referrals by doctors. For more information, please contact our staff members at wards of the Hospital or medical centres of HKSH Healthcare.
- Tel.:
- 2835 8634, 9150 6920
- Email:
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- Fax:
- 2892 7506