Nurse Practitioner Diabetes Clinic

Name

Caroline Cook

Description

The Nurse Practitioner Diabetes service is an outreach diabetes service incorporating advanced assessment and treatment planning.  It provides face-to-face visits at Community Health Centres located within the Southern NSW Local Health District on a rotating schedule every 3 months. This is a FREE OF CHARGE service.

Criteria for referral include:

  • person with diabetes aged 16 years and over with
    • no existing endocrinologist or limited ability to access endocrinology services (e.g. geographical isolation, financial limitations
    • concerns about their diabetes management

Services include:

  • comprehensive assessment, identification and prioritising of clinical issues
  • planning, implementation and evaluating treatment strategies
  • medication management
  • assistance with continuum of care and integration of services across sites and disciplines
  • case management and consultation of patients with other diabetes team members
  • identification of clients requiring referral to diabetes medical specialist clinics

Address

Geo-Location

Address: Pambula Community Health Centre, Pambula District Hospital, Merimbola Street

Postcode: 2549

Suburb: Pambula

State: nsw

Country: Australia

Latitude/Longitude: -36.9260, 149.8779


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Contact details

Misc. info

Preferred contact method: Email

Landline/Work no.: 0428115049

Fax no.: (02) 64958322

Mobile no.: 0428115049

Email: caroline.cook@health.nsw.gov.au

Wheelchair access: Yes

Service delivery in languages other than English: None

Consultation types

Area of practice

  • Diabetes self management education
  • Individual consultation
  • Insulin initiation
  • Insulin pumps
  • Medicine review
  • Gestational diabetes
  • Type 1 diabetes
  • Type 2 diabetes