Wound care in Moreton Bay for NDIS participants, delivered at home by MediHealth Connect registered nurses across the Redcliffe Peninsula, North Lakes, Caboolture, Pine Rivers and Bribie Island. Pressure injuries, surgical wounds, leg ulcers and complex wounds, assessed properly, dressed correctly and tracked to healing.
Living with a disability in Moreton Bay often means living some distance from the nearest wound clinic. Redcliffe Hospital and Caboolture Hospital serve a large area, and for a participant with limited mobility, a weekly trip to an outpatient clinic to have a dressing changed can be harder than the wound itself.
Home wound care solves that by bringing the nurse to you. Our Moreton Bay wound care nurses assess the wound in your home, whether that is in Kippa-Ring, Morayfield, Albany Creek or on Bribie Island, set a dressing plan and visit on the schedule the wound needs. Measurements and photographs at every visit mean healing is tracked rather than assumed, and your GP is kept informed. It is wound care built around the participant, not the clinic timetable.
Our Moreton Bay wound care services cover the wounds NDIS participants need help with most.
The most frequent referral we receive in Moreton Bay. Heel and sacral injuries in people who sit or lie for long periods, treated with stage-appropriate dressings, equipment and a repositioning plan the household can follow.
Going home from Redcliffe, Caboolture or a Brisbane hospital with a fresh incision. We pick up the surgeon's dressing orders, monitor for infection and separation and report to the team before the post-op review.
Ulcers caused by venous disease, arterial disease or diabetes. Treated with the right dressing and compression where it is safe, alongside attention to circulation and blood glucose.
Wounds under negative pressure therapy, wounds that have stalled for weeks, skin tears and burns. Specialist review is organised through your GP and the specialist's recommendations are delivered at home.
The first visit from a Moreton Bay wound treatment nurse takes longer than the ones that follow, because it is an assessment rather than a dressing change. The nurse wants to understand why the wound is there and why it has not healed by itself. That means looking at the wound bed and the skin around it, checking for infection, and asking about pain, appetite, circulation, blood sugar, smoking and the medicines you take, several of which can slow healing.
The wound is measured and, if you agree, photographed. Then the nurse writes the dressing plan and leaves a copy with you: products, frequency, what carers can safely do, and the signs that should prompt a call. If you already attend a Metro North wound clinic, the nurse contacts the clinic so that the two plans match.
Routine visits follow the plan. The dressing comes off, the wound is cleaned and inspected, measured against last time and photographed, and a fresh dressing goes on. The measurements are the point: they show whether the wound is closing at the rate it should. If it is, the plan continues. If it has stalled, the nurse changes something, whether that is the product, the frequency or a request to your GP for a swab or a specialist opinion.
Your GP receives written progress reports on an agreed cycle, and hears about any deterioration the same day. Carers and support workers are shown, in your home, how to keep the dressing intact, what early infection looks like and how to reposition, because what happens on the days the nurse is not there decides whether the wound heals.
Pressure injury care in Moreton Bay includes stopping the next injury. For participants who use a wheelchair or spend long periods lying down, prevention is part of every nursing visit: skin inspection over heels, sacrum, hips, elbows and under any equipment, a repositioning schedule that carers can actually maintain, pressure-relieving mattresses and cushions requested through your plan with nursing evidence, and attention to moisture and nutrition, which are behind most skin breakdown. Support workers are trained to notice the first signs of a problem so it is caught between visits.
Our wound care nurses visit participants across the City of Moreton Bay, including Bribie Island. Nurses are rostered by area so that travel does not compromise visit times.
North Lakes corridor: North Lakes, Mango Hill, Kallangur, Petrie
Caboolture and north: Caboolture, Morayfield, Burpengary, Narangba, Deception Bay
Redcliffe Peninsula: Redcliffe, Scarborough, Margate, Kippa-Ring
Pine Rivers: Strathpine, Brendale, Albany Creek, Warner
Islands: Bribie Island
Wound care is provided through our community nursing service in Moreton Bay. Participants whose wounds are part of complex care can be supported by our Moreton Bay high intensity supports. Our article on what your nurse does during wound care at home describes a typical visit, and the wound care overview covers South East Queensland.
Whether the NDIS or Medicare pays depends on what caused the wound. A wound that exists because of your disability, such as a pressure injury from immobility, is an NDIS matter: the nursing and the dressings come from your Core budget as disability-related health supports. A wound from an acute health episode unrelated to your disability, such as a clinic dressing after surgery, is a Medicare or hospital matter. Plenty of Moreton Bay participants have one of each at some point, and we help you keep the funding straight.
To add wound care to a plan that does not have it, you need evidence from your GP or specialist and a clinical report from our nurse, and a Moreton Bay support coordinator can help you lodge the request for a review or variation.
The wound sets the frequency. Expect frequent visits for a fresh or infected wound, and once or twice a week for a stable chronic wound under a long-wear dressing. The nurse writes the schedule into your plan after the first assessment and changes it as the wound changes.
Yes, when the wound is related to your disability and wound care is funded in your plan; the dressings are claimed from Core with the nursing. Wounds that belong to an unrelated health episode are a Medicare or hospital cost. We confirm which one applies before supplies are ordered.
Yes. Pressure injuries are the most common wound our Moreton Bay nurses see. Treatment at home covers staging and measurement, dressing selection, moisture and infection control, pressure-relieving equipment and carer coaching in repositioning and skin checks, including on Bribie Island.
Yes. Written progress reports with measurements and consented photographs go to your GP on an agreed cycle, and any deterioration is phoned through the same day so a swab, review or referral can be organised straight away.
The plan changes. The nurse may switch products or frequency, look again at diet, circulation, blood sugar and medicines, ask your GP for a swab, or request a specialist or vascular referral. Measuring at every visit means this happens within weeks, not months.