HNS celebration

IMAGE: HNS/HCS Founder Amy Darvall & CEO, Kim Sutton

#1 Leading Catastrophic Injury & Acquired Disability Practitioners

2024 marks an exciting milestone for Holistic Nursing Solutions (HNS). This year the team celebrates 10 years of successfully delivering life changing nursing services to people with catastrophic injury and acquired disability; enabling people to live and thrive in their homes and communities of choice. 

For those of you unfamiliar with the HNS story, our hugely impactful boutique company was founded by Amy Darvall, a skilled Clinical Nurse Consultant, who holds a Masters in Wound Care, and boasts a niche specialty in pressure injury and scar management within the spinal cord injury population…

DID YOU KNOW?

The collagen make-up within the skin changes following spinal cord injury; causing huge implications if an individual sustains a wound…

Achieving true expertise requires at least 10 000 hours practice according to Malcom Gladwell…

We recently reviewed the careers of our 40+ clinical staff and realised that, the HNS team boasts a staggering combined 13.8 million hours of mastery in SCI and TBI. That’s an average of 475,759 hours of experience, per HNS nurse! 🏆

Healing a Stage 4 Pressure Injury in just 5 Months using Innovative evidence based wound techniques and a renewed bowel regime…

You definitely want to meet this Superstar clinician…

Louise Kelly has worked in spinal cord injury since commencing her career at the Royal North Shore Hospital (Sydney)  in 2000. Impressively, she holds a Masters degree with a double major in education and management and is currently completing a PhD through the University of Sydney investigating the nurses’ role in research and management of neurogenic incontinence.

Continence assessments

Capacity for new clients

HNS has a growing team and capacity…

Face-to-face appointments are available from Ipswich down through the Gold Coast, the Tweed and Lismore regions and all the way to Tamworth and Sydney.

Telehealth offers a fast and convenient option for people anywhere in Australia.

HIGHLY SKILLED STAFF

The Holistic Care Solutions (HCS) team are highly skilled in complex care; receiving regular training from our registered nurses and clinical nurse consultants who specialise in spinal cord and acquired brain injury.

IMAGE: Education & Talent Coordinator, Aria provides expert catheter care training to HCS support worker, Grace

Impressive audit outcomes

In October 24 our external auditors delivered our final NDIS and ACIS 4.0 reports, following our recent in-depth dual NDIS and ACIS audit.

We are proud to be re-registered and certified, thanks to our impressive clinical and corporate governance frameworks, team skill, in-house training capacity and gold-standard service delivery.