Welcome to NurseLink Foundation

 We are proud to present our new bedside program

NurseLink employs specially trained palliative care nurses and palliative care assistants who provide bedside care for people who are dying.

Please call us on 8232 0211 if we can assist you in making this time of life as comfortable and peaceful as possible.

Bedside nursing for a terminally ill patient requires time, knowledge and skills. Sometimes this is more than an organisation or family can provide.
 

Click here for more information 
 

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NurseLink Foundation's next workshop: 

"Providing Emotional & Spiritual Comfort for the Terminal Phase of Life"

- essential training for our bedside program

To provide participants with experiences that
go beyond physical needs to suggest
responses for emotional and spiritual care.

NurseLink DVD  - 

 "Say it Forward: Planning for End of Life"

NurseLink's newest DVD is available for purchase from our online store and will shortly be available for preview in our videos section.

South Australian service clubs have responded enthusiastically, if your club is interested in viewing our DVD please contact us

 

"Featured four excellent speakers for the price of one!”
“The best presentation we have seen!”
“Very important information."
 

This DVD on the legal aspects of palliative care advises how the knowledge, implementation and use of certain legal documents can help ease tensions and conflicts between families, carers and others in the last phase of life.

Speakers include: Emeritus Professor Ian Maddocks - the first Palliative Care Professor in the world; John Harley – retired solicitor and former SA Public Advocate; Margaret Brown – a Research Fellow at The University of SA and Martyn Evans – the director of Community Engagement at The University of Adelaide with Joy Nugent the founder and Honourary Managing Director of NurseLink Foundation, outline practical provisions we can make for end of life care.

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More training courses for rural nurses, mentors and nurse assistants with an interest in palliative care and the care of people who wish to die at home will be held. Click for Further Information...

'NurseLink changed my life - with the wonderful team of nurses and nurse assistants I felt that my needs were not only met but understood'. We hear that a lot.

NurseLink Foundation is a non-profit public company limited by guarantee and has endorsement as a deductible gift recipient.  The NurseLink Foundation has three main objectives:

1. Supporting people in their final stage of life and allowing them to die at home, giving them the highest  quality of life and taking pressure off both their family and the public health system.
2. Supporting nurses in providing the best quality care by assisting them to run their own practices through mentoring, an office set up & management system, education and training.
3. Establishing the NurseLink model of palliative and aged care into the wider community and demonstrating its effectiveness to government, health professionals and society.

The NurseLink Foundation advances nursing in the spirit of Florence Nightingale and supports compassionate bedside nurses.

If you have any questions at all, please contact us.

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