Hello and welcome to another Intensive Care at Home live stream. Today’s topic is evidence-based home ventilation — what the research actually says, including journal reviews.

My name is Patrik Hutzel and I am the host of today’s show. We are covering roughly 45 minutes today. I also have a questions and answers section at the end. I want to thank everybody watching this video on replay, because I know we always have a large number of viewers on replay. I also want to welcome our international viewers in the U.S., in Canada, in the UK, India, and Europe — wherever you are around the world. Give this video a like, a thumbs up, and subscribe to my YouTube channel so you do not miss out on any videos.

At Intensive Care at Home, we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomy at home with 24-hour critical care nurses. We provide tailor-made solutions for long-term ventilated adults and children on BiPAP (Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure) and CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) at home with 24-hour critical care nurses. We provide long-term care at home for tracheostomy adults and children without ventilation with 24-hour critical care registered nurses. We provide home ventilation and home tracheostomy weaning whenever medically appropriate. We provide home cough assist management, home TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition), home IV fluids, home IV antibiotics, IV potassium, IV magnesium and other electrolyte infusions — which goes hand in hand with central line, PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line, Hickman’s line, and port management at home. We provide PEG (Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy) and PEJ (Percutaneous Endoscopic Jejunostomy) tube management, nasogastric tube and nasojejunostomy tube management at home, as well as IDC (Indwelling Catheter) and SPC (Suprapubic Catheter) management, and palliative care management at home. We also provide Level 2 and Level 3 NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) support coordination as well as TAC (Transport Accident Commission) and WorkSafe case management.

Today’s topic is a big one and I have had it on the list for a while — evidence-based home ventilation. What does the research actually say? Today is a journal review. I am not going to give you opinions today. I am going to walk you through the actual peer-reviewed evidence, our own evidence-based guidelines, and the NDIS Commission’s own documents step by step.

Let’s Start with Noah Johnston — and Why We Are Talking About This Today

Before I get into the papers, I want to tell you about Noah Johnston. Because everything I am about to walk you through today is not academic for Noah’s family. It is the reason his mom Kylie spent nearly two years fighting the NDIA (National Disability Insurance Agency).

Noah was only 22 years old. He had a hypoxic birth injury as a baby, and by the time he was two he had cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and chronic lung disease. Over time he became completely dependent on a ventilator and a tracheostomy. He was non-verbal but he was sharp. He loved children’s movies, loved being read to, and he could communicate on an iPad for as long as he had use of his hands.

In January 2024, the NDIA downgraded Noah’s care from registered nurses with specialist training to disability support workers. That registered nurses with specialist training meant critical care trained nurses with Intensive Care at Home. His mom Kylie appealed that decision to the ART (Administrative Review Tribunal). The NDIA’s own independent medical expert did an assessment and warned that without a registered nurse, Noah’s life was at risk. That is not me saying it. That is the NDIA’s own expert.

The tribunal’s decision was due in March 2026. Noah did not make it to March 2026.

On the night of the 8th of December 2025, the tube came off his ventilator and there was no registered nurse there to put it back on, because his mom could not use his NDIS plan to pay for one. In that kind of emergency, you are talking minutes to seconds. No more or less than that.

His mom Kylie went to the media to highlight the tragic and preventable death of Noah. As reported in the Daily Telegraph, I was also quoted in the Saturday Telegraph on the 24th of January this year in a story headlined “NDIS cuts are a death sentence.” And what I said then is exactly what today’s journal review is going to prove with the evidence.

There is not a lot of margin for error for a client at home on a ventilator with a tracheostomy. There is not a lot of margin for error for a client at home on a ventilator on BiPAP without a tracheostomy. And there is not a lot of margin for error for a client at home on a tracheostomy without ventilation. That is why you need an intensive care nurse there 24 hours a day — the same as you would get in an ICU (Intensive Care Unit) bed in a hospital.

If you have experienced anything similar with the NDIA or any other funding bodies, please let me know in the comments.

 

What Evidence-Based Home Ventilation Actually Means

Here at Intensive Care at Home, we have published our own evidence-based Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines. I want everyone watching to go and actually read this document. It is on our website at intensivecareathome.com. I will put a link in the show notes once this video is published on our website. When you go to intensivecareathome.com and scroll down on the right side, you will find a section for the Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines.

These evidence-based Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines are based on decades of clinical practice from Germany, Austria, and now Australia, where home ventilation has been standard practice for around 30 years. I did my basic nurse training in Germany. I have seen this system work properly for decades — long before I set up Intensive Care at Home in Australia in 2012.

It is crystal clear that the only safe avenue for anybody on a ventilator and tracheostomy to go home from ICU is with 24/7 critical care nurses. There are three categories we are talking about today, and this covers all three categories equally.

Number one: Invasive ventilation with tracheostomy. That is full-time or part-time positive pressure ventilation through a tracheostomy tube. Our guidelines are black and white on this. Any service delivery without critical care trained registered nurses puts the client at very high risk of death. If ventilation goes over 16 hours a day, you also need a backup ventilator and an external battery. Every part of that — cuff pressure changes, cannula changes, alarm responses, administering nebulizers, suctioning, changing tracheostomy tubes, preventing emergency tracheostomy tube changes, circuit changes, adjusting ventilator settings, talking to hospitals or medical practitioners about ventilation parameter changes, or changing ventilators when going out — those are all critical care nursing skills and are needed 24 hours a day.

Number two: Non-invasive ventilation — BiPAP and CPAP. Different equipment, no tracheostomy, mask or mouthpiece instead of a tracheostomy tube — but the guidelines are just as clear. The same standard of nursing service quality is what determines a safe outcome. Secretion management, alarm responses, and 24/7 critical care registered nurses with a properly qualified team all still apply.

What also often goes hand in hand with any of this is seizure management. For example, in Noah’s case who had cerebral palsy, seizure management was involved as well. For seizure management — especially when it comes to the administration of seizure management plans with benzodiazepines, midazolam, fentanyl, morphine, clonazepam, diazepam — these are skills required from a critical care nurse, not from a disability support worker or an enrolled nurse.

Number three: Tracheostomy care without ventilation. This one also gets underestimated constantly. Just because someone is breathing on their own does not mean the risk is lower. A blocked or displaced tracheostomy tube is a life-threatening airway emergency that can happen at any given time. The window of opportunity between recognizing the problem and the person losing consciousness can be measured in seconds or minutes. Knowing whether you are dealing with a mucus block, a displaced tube, or a full obstruction — and choosing the right response in real time — is not something you learn from a checklist or an online course.

The evidence-based Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines are a result of over 25 to 30 years of intensive care at home nursing in Germany. I was part of the first pioneering service in Germany setting up intensive care at home in the early 2000s — Brambring and Jaschke in Munich. Big shout out to Jürgen and Kristof who set up this service successfully. I was one of their employees. Big shout out to the work they have done in this pioneering space in the early 2000s, because they really created the Intensive Care at Home space in Germany. With my learnings, I took the concept overseas and started Intensive Care at Home in Australia in 2012.

The evidence is crystal clear: when patients leave intensive care to go home — or when patients leave hospital from HDU (High Dependency Unit), step-down ICU, or sometimes even respiratory wards — the only way to make that safe is with 24-hour critical care trained nurses. More specifically, you need a critical care nurse with a minimum of two years critical care nursing experience. Which leads me to the team we are employing here at Intensive Care at Home. We are employing hundreds of years of critical care nursing experience combined, which enables us to look after the highest acuity clients in the community safely.

The NDIS Skills Descriptors Compared to the Evidence

Here is what I really want to show you today and I want to slow down here because this is the heart of today’s video.

The NDIS Commission has these high-intensity support skill descriptors. They were revised with effect from the 1st of February 2026. They set out what a DSW (Disability Support Worker) is meant to be trained to do for ventilation support and tracheostomy support. And when you read through them properly, you are reading a list of critical care nurse responsibilities:

• Operating and monitoring a ventilator
• Responding to ventilator alarms
• Identifying a blocked airway and acting on it
• Commencing manual ventilation in an emergency
• Managing cuff inflation and deflation on a tracheostomy tube

Every single one of those tasks in a hospital is a CCRN (Critical Care Registered Nurse) task and only happens in ICU. Not even a general registered nurse task in any of these cases. Definitely not an enrolled nurse task. And definitely not a disability support worker task.

And here is the line that should stop everyone watching this in their tracks. The NDIS Commission’s own documentation states — and I am paraphrasing their own framing here — these descriptors are designed for a competent worker who is not a qualified health or allied health practitioner. So the entire model assumes that an unqualified worker can be trained in a short course to do what takes a critical care registered nurse years of study and supervised clinical practice to do safely.

I use the following analogy all the time and I will use it again today. It is like putting the cabin crew in the cockpit because they have done a safety briefing instead of a fully qualified pilot. Let me repeat that. It is like flying the airplane with a cabin crew instead of the pilot. The skills, the judgment, the split-second decision making of a critical care registered nurse cannot be replaced by a training module — no matter how well designed that training module is.

I have mentioned Noah Johnston, which is obviously the most prominent case that has made it to the media. But there are other cases that have not made it to the media, where similar situations occurred and the families for whatever reason decided not to speak up. But the evidence was crystal clear that those clients needed 24-hour critical care registered nurses, and the NDIA refused to fund it, and patients passed away because of it.

The Journal Review: What the Peer-Reviewed Literature Actually Says

This is the actual journal review section. I do not want you to just take my word for any of this.

First: Windisch and colleagues published the German guidelines for non-invasive and invasive mechanical ventilation in the journal Pneumologie back in 2010. That guideline underpins decades of home ventilation practice in Germany and requires critical care trained staff 24 hours a day and backup equipment as minimum safety standards. This is the foundation our own guidelines and, more importantly, our own practice and advocacy are built on.

Second: There is a paper by Pracilio, Wilson, Kirsten, Troller, and Cashin published in the journal Collegian in 2022, proposing a remedy for the inequitable representation of nursing in the NDIS. This paper looked directly at the delegated model of nursing care and found there is no evidence in the peer-reviewed literature supporting delegation for people with lifelong disability. It also cited earlier research showing the risk of missed care under delegation is real — not theoretical.

People have died under this delegated model of care. We had warned the NDIA that this would happen if they were not funding 24-hour critical care registered nurses. We were providing the NDIA with all the evidence and they simply ignored it — and clients passed away because of it.

There is another issue that comes out of the delegated model of care: when nurses provide or supervise disability support workers for complex clients, they could lose their AHPRA (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency) registration — because they are not allowed to train disability support workers who might have worked in a supermarket last week or on a construction site last week to become intensive care nurses. That is simply not safe, it has cost lives, and it puts registered nurses at risk with AHPRA and with their professional indemnity and public liability insurances — because those liability insurances generally only provide coverage for registered nursing work, not for training disability support workers on what are technically intensive care patients.

Third: The same research group published a follow-up discourse analysis in Collegian in 2023, looking at how nursing is represented in the NDIS price guide. It found that under the NDIS, nursing is treated as only a small part of what a registered nurse is actually trained and qualified to do, and that registered nurses are structurally grouped with disability support workers in a way that limits access to properly qualified care for participants.

Fourth: Shore, Maben, Mold, Winkley, Cook, and Stenner published a systematic review in the International Journal of Nursing Studies in 2022, reviewing 20 studies on delegating medication administration from registered nurses to non-registered support workers in community settings. Their conclusion: delegation is a complex, high-risk process shaped heavily by training quality, context, and oversight. It is not a simple substitution of one worker for another.

Fifth: A 2025 case study in the Journal of Clinical Nursing by Wilson and colleagues looked at registered nurse-led interdisciplinary care for a young woman with intellectual disability and chronic complex health problems, and found that specialized registered nurse-led models — not the standard 24-hour disability support worker group home model — are what actually protect quality of life and safety for complex, high-acuity clients.

Sixth: At the NDIS ART, three separate matters publicly referred to by the case codes NI, KTB, XZJ, Y, and YHPS — and you can search these yourselves — were all resolved in favour of direct CCRN-led nursing models over NDIA-proposed delegated support worker arrangements. A delegated support worker arrangement whenever critical care registered nurses are needed, as per the evidence, is like flying the airplane with a cabin crew instead of the pilot.

The Pattern Across Every Single Source

Here is the pattern across every single one of these sources. There is no published clinical evidence anywhere that a trained support worker achieves an equivalent safety outcome to a critical care registered nurse in ventilator or tracheostomy care. Not one RCT (Randomized Controlled Trial). Not one outcome study. Nothing. What we have instead is a funding model built around cost, dressed up in language that sounds clinical.

Let me repeat that, because it is the crux of today’s presentation. The pattern across every single one of these review sources: there is no published clinical evidence anywhere that a trained disability support worker achieves an equivalent safety outcome to a critical care registered nurse in ventilation or tracheostomy care. Not one randomized trial, not one outcome study, nothing. What we have instead is a funding model built around cost, dressed up in language that sounds clinical.

It is not only Noah Johnston who has passed away preventably. There are also others — whether it is patients with tracheostomy without ventilation, patients on BiPAP or CPAP — it includes all of them. Because all of those patient groups need a 24-hour critical care registered nurse, not a dressed-up disability support worker model labelled as a delegated model of care.

What Evidence-Based Care Actually Looks Like in Practice

Our Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines on our website at intensivecareathome.com set this out in detail:

• 24/7 critical care registered nurses
• Every nurse with a minimum of 18 to 24 months ICU or critical care nursing experience
• A designated specialist nurse managing the case with a minimum of three years ICU experience and a postgraduate critical care nursing qualification
• Backup ventilators and battery power for anyone ventilated more than 16 hours a day
• Humidification at 37 degrees for invasive ventilation to reduce the risk of VAP (Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia)
• Humidification for non-invasive ventilation at 32 degrees to reduce the risk of pneumonia
• An intensive care nursing team and a nursing management team contactable 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days of the year

Because of all of these specifics and complications, this is exactly why in 2026, Intensive Care at Home remains the first and only third-party accredited Intensive Care at Home nursing service in the whole of Australia. We hold ISO 9001:2015 certification. We are NDIS registered and we are the only provider in this country whose home ventilation practice has actually been independently audited against all of those standards for intensive care at home nursing. You can look it up yourself on our accreditation and quality page at intensivecareathome.com/accreditation-quality.

That accreditation is not a marketing badge for us. It is the proof that when we say 24/7 critical care registered nurses, that is exactly what is on the roster every hour of every day.

This is actually how I got started in 2012. That was the first thing I did — I created policies and procedures for intensive care at home nursing that have stood the test of time. Not only from a service delivery point of view, but also matching the service delivery with accreditation standards. It only works if both are aligned.

Build Your Evidence Base: What Families, Coordinators, and Independent Nursing Assessors Should Be Doing

If you are an NDIS participant, a family member of an NDIS participant, an NDIS support coordinator, a case manager, an independent nursing assessor, a doctor, or allied health physio — and you are currently being told that a support worker, an enrolled nurse, or a general registered nurse is enough for ventilation or tracheostomy support — here is what to do with everything I have covered today.

Get independent clinical evidence from a respiratory physician, an intensive care physician, and from critical care registered nurses — that specifically explains why a disability support worker model is not appropriate for the level of clinical risk involved. You can reference our evidence-based Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines and this published research directly in your reports and submissions.

This is also exactly where our Level 2 and Level 3 NDIS specialist support coordination comes in. We have a team who does this kind of evidence building and advocacy work every single day. We also provide TAC case management and WorkSafe case management in Victoria.

If today’s video has raised questions about your own situation or someone you love, reach out to us at intensivecareathome.com or to me directly. Call me on one of the numbers on the top of the website, or book a call with me by clicking on the Schedule Appointment button. You can reach me and my team by calling one of the numbers on the top of our website or by calling me directly if you are in Australia on 0410 942 230 — that is again 0410 942 230. You can also email me at [email protected].

If you are an NDIS support coordinator, a case manager, a nurse practitioner, an intensive care specialist, a hospital executive, a director of nursing, a hospital discharge planner, or a bed manager — we work with all of you all the time and help you to solve your problems, which are bed blocks in ICU or long-term stays in hospital. We know what you need, we know what you want, and we can help you eliminate some of your bed blocks.

Questions and Answers

Question: Does my disability support worker just need more training to manage my dad’s ventilator?

No. More hours of the same style of training does not change what the role is legally and clinically able to do. The skill descriptors themselves say this training is designed for someone who is not a health practitioner. What your dad needs is a critical care registered nurse 24 hours a day — not a longer course for a disability support worker who might have worked in a supermarket last week, worked on a construction site, worked on a farm, or driven a taxi or Uber, and is now meant to be an intensive care nurse looking after your dad on a ventilator. That sounds unsafe to me.

Question: My NDIS support coordinator says a registered nurse without ICU experience can do tracheostomy care. Is that true?

Our Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines — which are evidence-based — the journal review we just went through, and my own extensive clinical experience all say no. A general registered nurse has not had the critical care training or the supervised ICU exposure that ventilated and tracheostomy emergencies demand. It has to be a critical care registered nurse, ideally with a minimum of two years ICU experience.

I have worked in critical care nursing for over 25 years in three different countries where I have worked as a nurse manager for over five years in intensive care. I have worked with intensive care at home in Germany in the early 2000s, setting up intensive care at home as a concept successfully there. Then I went on working in ICU in the UK and in Australia, and when I came to Australia in 2005, I started Intensive Care at Home in 2012 after I realized that nobody was doing this here — which is why I got started.

I also have extensive experience with advocacy and consulting for families in intensive care. I run a consulting and advocacy practice for families in intensive care at intensivecarehotline.com.

Question: How long does an ART appeal like Noah’s usually take?

From my experience, it varies case by case and I am not going to put a number on it, because every matter is different. What I will say is this: get your independent clinical evidence early and do not wait until a crisis forces the issue. What also often happens is that when a case goes to the ART and the evidence is there, the NDIS will settle before the case goes to a verdict.

Question: Can you help with TAC and WorkSafe claims — not just NDIS?

Yes, absolutely. We provide TAC and WorkSafe case management here in Victoria, as well as Level 2 and Level 3 NDIS support coordination including specialist support coordination. If you are navigating either of those systems, reach out.

Question: Is this only for adults or paediatric cases too?

It is definitely for both. We have both paediatric and adult clients. Everything in today’s guidelines and journal review applies equally to ventilated and/or tracheostomy-dependent children and adults.

One of our first paediatric clients, around 2015 to 2016, came through one of the well-known children’s hospitals here in Australia. The reason they eventually used our service is simply because a child had passed away in the community who had a tracheostomy that needed management, was looked after by a mixture of disability support workers and general registered nurses, and they could not handle a medical emergency in the community — and the child subsequently passed away. I could give other examples of adults and children passing away because the critical care model in the community was not funded when it was needed. I know of at least around eight cases in the last ten years where patients have passed away because critical care registered nurses were not funded and disability support workers or general registered nurses were funded instead — and that led to clients passing away.

The Bottom Line

The peer-reviewed literature, our own evidence-based Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines, our own clinical practice, my own experience in Germany, and Noah Johnston’s death and many other preventable client deaths all point to exactly the same conclusion.

Ventilation with tracheostomy, non-invasive ventilation on BiPAP or CPAP, and tracheostomy care without ventilation all require 24/7 critical care registered nurses at home. Not general registered nurses, not community registered nurses, not enrolled nurses, not disability support workers, and definitely not a short training course. Evidence-based, hospital-equivalent nursing care — because that is what the evidence actually says. And that is what keeps people alive. That is actually the only thing that keeps people alive.

If this video today has been useful to you, hit like, subscribe to my YouTube channel for more videos for families in intensive care and Intensive Care at Home. Click the notification bell and share this with a family, an NDIS support coordinator, a case manager, a hospital executive, ICU consultants, ICU nurses, the NDIA directly, and patients and families as well.

Drop your comments into the comment section. I read every single one of them and I will come back to some of them next week. Do not let other people die because of systemic failures. Let people live with the right information, followed by the right advocacy.

Thank you so much for watching. Thank you for your support.

My name is Patrik Hutzel from Intensive Care at Home at intensivecareathome.com.

Thank you so much for joining me.

Stay safe and I will talk to you again very soon.

Take care.

With all of that said, with Intensive Care at Home, we are currently sending our critical care nurses into the home 24 hours a day. Therefore, we are providing a genuine alternative to long-term stay in intensive care for:

• Ventilation
• Tracheostomy
• Home BiPAP (Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure) and CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure)
• Tracheostomy care without ventilation
• home TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition)
• Home IV potassium
• Home IV magnesium
• Home IV antibiotics
• Home IV fluids

We’re providing:

• Cough assist management at home
• Ventilation weaning management at home
• central line, PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line, Hickman’s line as well as port management at home
• nasogastric tube, nasojejunostomy tube, PEG (Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy), PEJ (Percutaneous Endoscopic Jejunostomy) tube management at home
• IDC (Indwelling Catheter) and SPC (Suprapubic Catheter) management at home
• Palliative care services at home

We’re also sending our critical care nurses into the home for emergency department bypass services. We have done so successfully as part of the Western Sydney Local Health District’s In Touch program, saving approximately $2,000 per patient that we keep at home instead of them going into an emergency department.

That also means we’re in a position to cut the cost of an ICU bed by around 50%. An intensive care bed costs between $5,000 to $10,000 per bed day depending on location. Intensive Care at Home costs approximately 50% of that, and we’re freeing up the most sought-after bed in the hospital, which is the ICU bed. Most importantly, we’re improving the quality of life for patients and their families, which is a win-win situation for all stakeholders.

Our Coverage and Accreditation

With Intensive Care at Home, we’re currently operating all around Australia, in all major capital cities, as well as in all regional and rural areas. We are an NDIS approved service provider all around Australia, TAC (Transport Accident Commission) and WorkSafe in Victoria as well as the Department of Veterans Affairs all around Australia.

We’re also ISO 9001:2015 accredited. Our clients and we as a service provider have also received funding through public hospitals, private health funds as well as departments of health.

We are the only service provider in Australia that has achieved third-party accreditation for Intensive Care at Home nursing in 2025. We have been achieving this high level of accreditation since 2012. No other provider in Australia has achieved the Intensive Care at Home level of accreditation in the community and has created more intellectual property when it comes to Intensive Care at Home nursing than we have.

This puts us in a position to employ hundreds of years of critical care nursing experience combined in the community. No other service provider in 2025 employs a higher skill level in the community than we do. And that enables us to look after the highest acuity adults and children in the community in Australia safely.

If You Need Help

If you’re at home already and you’re watching this or you’re stuck in an ICU and you realize that you don’t have the right level of support, I can give you many examples where we helped clients with funding, how we advocate for funding. We had to advocate successfully for funding from our first case study to many other case studies where we had to advocate successfully for funding with the right evidence of course because it is crystal clear that disability support workers for example or registered nurses without ICU experience cannot look after ventilated clients at home whether adults or children with or without a tracheostomy and it’s simply dangerous and negligent.

There are plenty of examples where clients with support worker models or even RN (registered nurse) models without ICU experience have died at home and I have evidence to back up everything that I’m saying here because it’s a bit like flying the airplane with a cabin crew instead of the pilot and it could simply be deadly.

This can be avoided by having simply 24-hour critical care nurses at home because our clients are at high risk of medical emergencies or worse without critical care nurses 24 hours. This is actually also evidence-based in the community and is documented in our evidence-based Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines on our website at intensivecareathome.com.

Think about it: in an intensive care unit in a hospital, you wouldn’t have support workers or general registered nurses looking after a critical care patient on a ventilator with a tracheostomy. So why would anyone in their right mind do that in a home care environment where there are fewer resources?

Clients that have found us have been at home long-term predictably and permanently with critical care nurses. Their alternative would have been to either die or stay in ICU long-term, and our clients don’t go back to ICU. They stay at home permanently and predictably and the insurance bodies save half of the cost of an ICU. But it’s a win-win situation all around.

We can do the same for you if you’re stuck in ICU or if you’re not safe at home, which includes the advocacy for funding and the network that goes along with it. We have always successfully advocated for our clients or we have the network to successfully advocate for you and for your family member, otherwise we wouldn’t be in business. The same again is applicable for those stuck in an ICU which is similar to many of our, if not most of our cases.

Our Support Coordination Services

This is also why we are providing Level 2 and Level 3 NDIS support coordination. We have a team of experienced NDIS support coordinators, and they have a wealth of knowledge. We’re also providing TAC case management and WorkSafe case management in Victoria with Lucy McCotter.

If you’re an NDIS support coordinator or a case manager or a social worker from another organization or a hospital watching this and you’re looking for nursing care for your participants, please reach out to us as well. If you’re looking for funding for nursing care for your participants and you don’t know how to go about it and how to advocate for it, what evidence to provide, I encourage you to reach out to us as well. We have the network to make that happen. We will help you with the right level of funding and with the right level of advocacy.

We’re also providing NDIS specialist nursing assessments done by critical care nurses with a legal nurse consulting background.

Join Our Team

If you are a critical care nurse and you’re looking for a career change and you want to join a very progressive, dynamic, successful, and high-performing team of critical care nurses in the community, we are employing hundreds of years of critical care nursing experience combined.

If you’re looking for a career change, we’re currently hiring for jobs for critical care nurses in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Albury-Wodonga, Bendigo, Geelong, Warragul, and also in Wyelangta in Victoria.

If you have worked in critical care nursing for a minimum of two years, adult ICU, pediatric ICU, ED and you have already completed a postgraduate critical care nursing qualification, we will be absolutely delighted hearing from you.

I have a disclaimer though: Because we are offering tailor-made solutions for our clients which includes regular staff, our clients do also want the same staff coming over and over again because they are so vulnerable and so special. That’s why we need regular, reliable staff.

If you’re looking for agency work where you can come and go, this will not be the right fit for you. We’re looking for consistency and our clients are looking for consistency. So please only apply with us if you can give us regular and consistent availabilities for shifts and you’re really keen on building relationships with us and with our clients. Reliability is also a must.

For Medical Professionals and Healthcare Executives

If you’re an intensive care specialist or an ED specialist, we also want to hear from you. We’re currently expanding our medical team as well.

We can also help you eliminate your bed blocks in your ICU and in your ED for your long-term patients or for your regularly readmitting patients with our critical care nursing team at home. We’re here to help to take the pressure off your ICU and ED beds. In most cases, you won’t even pay for it. Even if you do pay for it, it is so much more cost-effective than what you’re paying for in ICU and ED settings, and you get the same level of care and simply more patient and family satisfaction because you also want to partner with your consumers.

If you are a hospital executive watching this, we can help you free up your ICU and ED beds.

International Support

If you’re in the U.S. or in the UK and you’re watching this and you need help, we want to hear from you as well. We can help you there privately with one-on-one consulting and with hiring nurses privately.

Once again, our website is intensivecareathome.com. Call us on one of the numbers on the top of our website or simply send us an email to [email protected].

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Thank you so much for watching.

This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com and I’ll talk to you in a few days.

Take care for now.