Community nurses are based in most primary schools and early childhood centres. Jasmine Cottage provides support, counselling, education, and groups for families with children under 5 years.

Community Nurse Referrals

A registered nurse is available, for short periods of time weekdays (and sometimes on weekends for essential services only), to assist with medication monitoring, injections, bathing, wound dressing, and advice on nursing management. Community nurses (now called Primary Health Nurses) are often asked to follow up patients discharged from hospital to continue a specified treatment or monitor the patients overall care. Referral can be made by anyone. Nurses do an initial assessment to determine needs. This service is free.

For more information or referrals contact
Phone: (02) 4633 4100
Fax: (02) 4633 4111

Campbelltown Community Health Centre
Ingleburn Community Health Centre
Narellan Community Health Centre
Rosemeadow Community Health Centre
Wollondilly Community Health Centre

Aged Care Psychogeriatric Community Nurse

Provides assessment, advice, counselling and case management for elderly people who develop psychiatric illness and/or dementias. Client/Carer Support and education is a feature of the service. The position liaises closely with the community mental health teams, ACAT and inpatient facilities.

Referrals are made to Braeside Hospital for inpatient management of selected clients for further information and referral contact:

Psychogeriatric Nurse
Macarthur Aged Care and Rehabilitation Service
14 Queen Street
Narellan NSW 2567
Phone: (02) 4640 3568

See also Macarthur Aged Care Mental Health Service

Aged Care Nurse

The Aged Care Nurses are part of the Aged Care Assessment Team. They conduct home visits or telephone consultations providing assessments, information, advice and assistance to older people most appropriate to meet their needs. Services may be organised to assist persons to remain in their homes or entry facilitated into an appropriate nursing residential aged care facility.

For information and referral contact

Macarthur Aged Care and Rehabilitation Service
14 Queen Street
Narellan NSW 2567
Phone: (02) 4640 3568

Palliative Care Service

Medical Services
Consist of an inpatient unit at Camden Hospital of 10 beds, a staff specialst, a hospital consultative service, outpatient clinics at Camden PCU and Macarthur Cancer Therapy Centre, home visits and nursing home visits.

Nursing Services
Consist of the Palliative Care Community Nursing Service (offering home visits, nursing home visits, a hospital consultative service and out patient clinics), primary health nurses, and an after hours call centre.

Referrals
Community nursing: Rosemeadow CHC - (02) 4633 4100
Palliative care specialist/registrar: Camden PCU - (02) 4654 6300
or page from Camden Hospital switch: (02) 4634 3000
Camden clinic bookings: (02) 4654 6306 (Heather Byron - 9am-1pm Mon-Fri)
Fax: (02) 4654 6310

Palliative Care involves the whollistic care of clients and their carers who are experiencing a life threatening illness, such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, chronic cardiac, lung, liver, kidney diseases, multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disesase.

The service offers education, information, consultancy and support to general practitioners, specialists, nurses and other health professionals who care for persons, particularly regarding symptom control, and other physical and emotional needs of the clients and their significant others.

An after hours/weekend service may be available to clients registered with the service.

Camden Palliative Care Unit, Camden Hospital Menangle Rd Camden 2570
Phone: (02) 4654 6300
Fax: (02) 4654 6310
For specialist assessment: (02) 4654 6306
For referral and information ring Health Centres (above)

Palliative Care Association of NSW

Palliative care is specialised health care of dying people which aims to maximise quality of life and assist families and carers during and after death. Palliative care can provide:

• medical, nursing and other health care
• Equipment to facilitate care
• Temporary respite care to give carers time out
• Volunteers who provide a range of services to patients, carers and families
• Counselling for patients and families
• Support groups for patients, carers and families
• Palliative acre recognises that dying people from different indigenous and non-English speaking backgrounds have special needs.
• Palliative care can support culturally diverse customs, traditions, religious beliefs and practices.

Palliative Care Association of NSW
Level 11, 418A Elizabeth St, Surry Hills NSW 2010
Phone: (02) 9282 6436
Website: www.palliativecarensw.org.au

Palliative Care Australia
PO Box 24
Deakin West ACT 2600
Phone: (02) 6232 4433
Fax: (02) 6232 4434

Mental Health Team

Campbelltown Mental Health Service provides a comprehensive range of services to residents of Macarthur. These include: outpatients assessment and treatment clinics, post natal depression support and Campbelltown Psychological Health Service.

Contact the Mental Health Service