In Home Nursing Care in Reservoir, Melbourne
Foundara Care sends registered nurses to your parent's home in Reservoir for wound care, medication support, post-hospital recovery, and chronic disease monitoring. No government waitlist. Care starts within days.
📞 (03) 7057 1950
📍 Reservoir VIC 3073
✉ info@foundaracare.com.au
A lot of families across Melbourne's north hit the same wall. GP visits aren't cutting it anymore, but a nursing home feels wrong. In-home nursing care sits right in that gap, and it's what we do. We're a small team based in Reservoir, postcode 3073. You won't get a national call centre when you ring us. You'll talk to someone who actually knows this part of Melbourne. If you want to see everything we offer across in-home nursing care in Melbourne, our main nursing page covers the full picture.
What In-Home Nursing Care Covers
A registered nurse (RN) or enrolled nurse (EN) visits your parent at home to handle clinical tasks. This is different from personal care at home like showering and dressing, or domestic help like cleaning. Those services can run alongside nursing care, but they're not the same thing. Here's what our Reservoir nursing team does:
Wound care
Surgical dressings, pressure injuries, leg ulcers, drain tubes, staple and suture removal, VAC dressing changes, chronic wound monitoring.
Medication support
Setting up medications, giving injections including insulin, watching for side effects, talking to your parent's GP or pharmacist when something needs adjusting.
Post-hospital recovery
Your parent gets discharged from Austin Health or the Northern Hospital and suddenly you're meant to manage wound checks, medication changes, and mobility at home. Our nurses pick that up so nothing gets missed.
Chronic condition management
Diabetes, heart disease, COPD, Parkinson's. Regular visits catch changes before they turn into another hospital admission.
Continence care
Catheter management, assessments, and practical advice on products that maintain dignity.
Palliative support
Symptom management and comfort care for families looking after a parent with a life-limiting illness. We coordinate with the palliative care team already involved.
Health assessments
Vital signs, falls risk checks, general wellbeing reviews, and early identification of changes your parent might not mention on their own.
Victoria's Better Health Channel notes that nursing is available at home for people recovering from illness, surgery, or living with ongoing health conditions. The part most families don't realise is that private nursing care skips the government assessment queue entirely. You call, we organise the nurse, and care begins.
The Nurses Who Visit Your Parent
Every Foundara nurse holds current AHPRA registration as a registered nurse or enrolled nurse. Police checks, Working With Vulnerable People clearance, professional indemnity insurance, all sorted before they walk through your parent's front door.
Qualifications aside, we put real thought into matching. Your parent's personality, their language, the kind of care they need. Reservoir has large communities, and we try to pair your parent with a nurse who speaks their language. It makes a genuine difference, particularly with older people who switch back to their first language when they're unwell or anxious.
We also keep the same nurse coming back. Your parent gets to know one person, not a revolving door of strangers every week. For someone recovering from surgery or living with dementia, a familiar face changes the entire dynamic. Big providers struggle with this because of rostering. We're small enough to make it work.
Why Reservoir Families Pay Privately for Nursing Care
Most people who call us didn't set out to pay for private nursing. They got stuck.
Maybe Mum was sent home from Austin Health on a Thursday and needed a wound dressing changed on Saturday. Maybe Dad's GP flagged that he needed regular blood sugar checks, but the government system quoted months before anything could start.
Private nursing care at home solves the problems those families hit:
It starts fast.
No assessment forms, no approval panel, no queue. We can usually get a nurse to your parent's home within a few days. Sometimes 48 hours.
The same person shows up.
You pick the schedule. The nurse your parent meets on day one is the nurse who keeps coming back. No rotating roster.
It bends around real life.
Wound care twice a week? A health check once a fortnight? Insulin every morning? We set up whatever your parent actually needs, and we change it when things shift.
Nursing Care and Personal Care: Two Different Things
Nursing care requires a registered nurse or enrolled nurse with clinical training. Wound dressings, injections, catheter care, health assessments, medication administration. These are clinical tasks. Personal care is handled by a trained support worker. Showering, dressing, grooming, getting in and out of bed, meals. Read more about what personal care at home looks like on our services page. Your parent might need both. Plenty of the families we work with have a nurse visiting two or three times a week and a support worker helping each morning. Foundara coordinates everything, so you deal with one team, one plan, one phone number.
Hospitals and GP Clinics Near Reservoir
Many families contact us after their parent is discharged from a nearby hospital or after their GP recommends regular nursing visits at home. Our nurses coordinate with these local facilities regularly:
Hospitals
| Hospital | Location | Distance |
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| Austin Health | Heidelberg | 5 km |
| The Northern Hospital | Epping | 8 km |
| Northpark Private Hospital | Bundoora | 6 km |
| Warringal Private Hospital | Heidelberg | 5 km |
| Brunswick Private Hospital | Brunswick | 7 km |
| Mercy Hospital for Women | Heidelberg | 5 km |
Our nurses talk to your parent's GP directly. If your parent has just been discharged from Austin Health or the Northern Hospital, we can usually have a nurse at their home within 48 hours.
GP Clinics in Reservoir
| Practice | Address |
|---|---|
| Reservoir Medical Centre | 4 Edwardes Street, Reservoir VIC 3073 |
| Edwards Street Family Clinic | 333 Edwardes Street, Reservoir VIC 3073 |
| Broadway Medical Clinic | 333 Broadway, Reservoir VIC 3073 |
| Ipswich Clinic | 43 Edwardes Street, Reservoir VIC 3073 |
| Summerhill Medical Centre | 600 Plenty Road, Reservoir VIC 3073 |
Frequently Asked Questions
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Two to four days from your first call, in most cases. Urgent situations like a hospital discharge this week can be faster, sometimes within 48 hours. No government assessment or approval is needed.
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No referral required. That said, if your parent's GP can share a care summary or hospital discharge notes, it helps the nurse get up to speed faster. We reach out to the GP ourselves once care is underway.
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A registered nurse (RN) holds a three-year bachelor's degree and handles complex clinical tasks: wound management, medication administration, health assessments. An enrolled nurse (EN) holds a diploma and works under RN supervision. Both carry AHPRA registration. Which one your parent needs depends on the complexity of their condition.
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Whatever suits their needs. Some clients have a nurse every day for insulin or wound care. Others need a visit once a week for a check-up and medication review. We adjust the schedule whenever things change.
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It depends on the policy. Some funds do cover in-home nursing care visits. Check with your parent's insurer.