Community Nursing Service
Introduction
- Community Nursing Service is one of the specialty nursing services within the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong
- The main aim is to provide holistic care for clients staying in the community
- Community nurse shall provide the following services at home visitation:
- Conduct comprehensive health assessment
- Formulate, implement and evaluate nursing therapeutics according to clients' needs
- For clients' with chronic health condition, case management model of care will be adopted by community nurse to deliver a coordinated healthcare service by networking with other service providers
Target Group
Community Nursing Service provides care for clients of all ages with the following conditions:
- Unable to attend health care facilities for receiving nursing care because of debilitated health profiles
- Require nursing support at home for continuous monitoring of treatment regime and compliance
- Promote self-reliance and empowerment to cope with chronic illness or specific nursing condition at the early stage of discharge from hospitalization
- Adopt case management model of care while caring at home for complex chronic diseases e.g. Pulmonary, Diabetic, Cardiac or Stroke care
Scope of Service
- Chronic disease management
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- Pulmonary rehabilitation
- Diabetic care
- Stroke rehabilitation
- Renal care
- Specialty nursing service
- Surgical care (e.g Wound and drain care, Ostomy care)
- Geriatric care
- Postnatal and infant care
- Continence care
- Palliative care/End-of-life care
- Utilization of community resources
- Nutrition counseling and feeding tube care
- Medication management
- Home safety assessment/ Home adaption and exercise
- Home infection control education
- Community health education
Service Hour
| Monday to Friday |
9:00 am to 5:00 pm |
| Saturday |
9:00 am to 1:00 pm |
| Sunday and Public Holiday |
Closed |
Contact Us
| Telephone: |
2468 5713 |
| Fax: |
2453 2317 |
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