Care that begins with listening.

Our story

Our founder came into nursing through some of the hardest wards first. As a student, her clinical placements took her into oncology at major Melbourne hospitals and into regional mental health care, sitting with people on some of the most difficult days of their lives, and with the families beside them.

What stayed with her was not only the illness. It was the people around it. Partners learning to manage care at home. Adult children juggling work and hospital visits. Families trying to make sense of a plan written in someone else's language. Most of them were doing everything right and still felt alone in it.

She began working in disability and community care just before COVID, and kept going through Melbourne's lockdowns, visiting people at home when so much else had closed. Since 2020, that work has taken her across Melbourne's west, north and inner suburbs and out to Geelong more times than she has bothered to count, always to sit at someone's kitchen table rather than have them come to her. Those years taught her what care comes down to. Turning up. Explaining things plainly. Making someone feel like a person, not a task.

Over time she became the nurse families asked for when it came to continence and catheter care. It is an area many people find hard to talk about, and she has a way of making it ordinary and unembarrassing, so the conversation can get to what will actually help.

Health Focus Nursing grew out of that. A practice where people, and the people who love them, are listened to first, and where care is given with skill and with a smile.

That is what we mean by Your care, our focus.

How we work

We keep the same people coming back wherever we can, so your routines and preferences are already understood rather than explained again. You are always welcome to ask for a different support worker, and we will simply find a better fit.

Clinical care is delivered directly by our own team of four registered nurses. Wound care, catheter management, medication and high intensity supports all need someone trained to notice when something is changing, and to write it down clearly so it helps at plan review.

As your needs or funding change, we adjust your support with you. And if we are not able to visit your area reliably, we will tell you honestly and help you find someone who can.

Women-owned, and inclusive by practice

Health Focus Nursing is women-owned, and everyone is welcome here, including our LGBTQ+ community. We mention it because for some people it shapes whether they feel comfortable accepting care at all, particularly personal care and continence support, where dignity and trust matter most. Participants tell us their pronouns and preferences at intake, we record them, and workers are briefed before the first visit.

We also support participants who speak languages other than English, and we match workers by language where we can. Again, this is discussed at the first visit rather than left for families to raise.