Light for Life

Intensive Care at home

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Light for Life’s ICU at Home team offers specialised, high-intensity nursing care for clients with complex disabilities across Melbourne. We collaborate with you to assemble a skilled nursing team tailored to your family’s needs and preferences.

Our Intensive care at home services include

  • Providing care to clients on mechanical ventilation with tracheostomy as an alternative to intensive care.
  • End-of-life nursing for clients on mechanical ventilation with tracheostomy
  • Nursing services for clients needing non-invasive ventilation (CPAP/BiPAP) or high-flow oxygen therapy.
  • Tracheostomy care and community support.
  • Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) administration and PICC/Central line care in the community.
  • PEG/PEJ feeding
  • Active night duty for critically ill clients for family rest and respite

 

Our Critical care registered nurses hold post-graduate certification and bring extensive experience in caring for critically ill patients in major public hospitals across Victoria.

​Additionally, we offer a care manual creation service to our clients. This service includes developing personalized care manuals and checklists that detail all necessary care tasks, which are then transformed into whiteboard daily care checklists for easy reference and management.