Community nurses — Wellington, Hutt and Kapiti

For the community health service, contact:

• Wellington Regional Hospital — phone 04 385 5821
• Hutt Hospital — phone 04 570 9148
• Kenepuru Community Hospital — phone 04 918 2011
• Kāpiti Health Centre —phone 04 903 0224

Wellington Regional Hospital

Street address:

Ewart Building
2b Coromandel Street
Newtown 6021

Ewart Building — Google Maps (external link)

Hutt Hospital

Street address:

638 High Street 
Boulcott
Lower Hutt 5010

Hutt Hospital — Google Maps (external link)

Kenepuru Community Hospital

Street address:

16 Hospital Drive 
Porirua 5022

Kenepuru Community Hospital — Google Maps (external link)

Kapiti Health Centre

Street address:

Warrimoo Street 
Paraparaumu 5032

Kapiti Health Centre — Google Maps (external link)

Hours

Operating hours are 8am to 4:30pm, Monday to Friday.

After hours are:

• 4:30pm to 10pm, Monday to Friday
• 8am to 4:30pm, Saturday and Sunday.

District nurses provide specialist nursing care, including:

• home visits, provided to housebound patients
• nursing clinics for people who are not housebound.

Once you have been referred to the community nursing service, a nurse will be in touch to assess your nursing care needs. You will either receive visits at home or be asked to attend the clinic.

You will be discharged from the service when:

• you have finished your plan of care
• you no longer require specialist nursing care
• when your needs can be met by your healthcare provider.

If you are finding it difficult to attend the clinic, discuss this with your nurse.

At-home care

Services provided at home include:

• specialist nursing care to prevent a hospital admission or follow-up support for patients after they leave hospital — this includes caring for people who have had a stoma, or tracheostomy
• home-based chemotherapy services
• assessment and treatment of complex and chronic wounds — for example Doppler assessments or compression bandaging
• compression bandaging
• venous leg ulcer care
• Doppler assessment
• administering medication at home
• assessing respiratory conditions and support managing chronic respiratory disease, including providing oxygen to be used at home and other support to improve lung function
• help with eating through feeding tubes
• care of patients with long-term conditions
• continence assessment and treatments, including bladder scanning and treatment of children with chronic bed wetting conditions
• palliative care services, in partnership with Mary Potter Hospice
• short-term home support services, personal care and home help.
• Meals on Wheels
• IV therapy.

There is no fee for home-based care provided by our district nurses.

Care is provided based on a needs assessment.

A referral for this service can come from a healthcare provider, or you may be referred after hospital admission.

• Administering subcutaneous (under the skin) medication bolus — patient informationPDF404 KB
• Adult tracheostomy care — patient informationPDF322 KB
• Bedwetting — parent or caregiver informationPDF266 KB
• Clean intermittent self catheterisation (men) — patient informationPDF471 KB
• Clean intermittent self catheterisation (women) — patient informationPDF481 KB
• Compression bandaging — patient informationPDF429 KB
• Doppler assessment — patient informationPDF439 KB
• Looking after your catheter at home (supra-pubic or urethral) — patient informationPDF481 KB
• Looking after your new stoma — discharge informationPDF385 KB
• Loperamide (Imodium) for adult patients — patient informationPDF521 KB
• Home support services — patient informationPDF427 KB
• How to change your wound dressing — patient informationPDF254 KB
• Managing your uridome at home— patient informationPDF418 KB
• Negative pressure wound therapy— patient informationPDF425 KB
• Nursing clinic — patient informationPDF252 KB
• Oxygen therapy at home — patient or carer informationPDF330 KB
• Personal care and home help — patient informationPDF204 KB
• Pressure injury prevention — patient informationPDF397 KB
• Self-administering Fentanyl patches — patient informationPDF553 KB
• Self-administration of an elastomeric infusor via a peripherally inserted central catheter — information for community patientsPDF530 KB
• Trial removal of catheter— patient informationPDF413 KB
• Urostomy — discharge informationPDF545 KB
• Venous leg ulcer care — patient informationPDF461 KB