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If you’re an NDIS or Support at Home (previously Home Care Package) recipient looking for specialised healthcare at home, create your free Mable account today and connect with a private nurse ready to assist you.
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What is a home care nurse?
Home care nurses are private nurses who provide care for people in their own homes. Private nurses verified on Mable come to you to provide personalised care tailored to your specific health needs, ensuring you receive the best possible support without stepping outside your door.
How does a home care nurse differ from a support worker?
The level of care they provide is different. Registered nurses undergo specialised clinical care training to assess patient needs and complete more complex healthcare tasks, such as wound care, continence education and dispensing medications. Whereas support workers help people who need assistance with tasks in their home or community, such as meal preparation, light housework and companionship.
Who do private nurses provide in-home support for?
Private nurses support people with all kinds of health needs. For example, if you require ongoing care for conditions such as high blood pressure or diabetes, a home nurse can help with treatment. Nurses can also provide short-term care to help people after surgery, illness or injury. They are also hired by people who require care for loved ones such as toileting and showering.
How do home care nurses ensure continuity of care for their clients?
Private nurses on Mable work closely with you to create a care plan that fits perfectly with your lifestyle and schedule. They keep the lines of communication wide open, making it easy to adjust your care as your needs evolve. Depending on your care plan and package, they may be able to coordinate with other healthcare providers or doctors to ensure that every aspect of your healthcare needs are managed effectively.
"As a registered nurse, I chose Mable because of the flexibility. It can fit in around my other hospital shifts."
Simone, Registered Nurse on Mable
What role do home care nurses play in supporting family caregivers on Mable?
Mable can assist you in finding a private nurse to join your support team. Depending on your care plan, as part of your Support at Home funding (previously Home Care Package) or the medical requirements of your NDIS care plan, a private nurse may play a role in supporting family caregivers. Take a look at your care plan to see if nursing services are included in your plan if you wish to use your funding. Below are some examples of the way other clients on Mable use nurses as part of their care plans.
Providing respite and support
Private nurses may provide temporary relief so family caregivers can take well-deserved breaks. Recharge without worry and prevent burnout while their loved one continues to receive top-notch care at home.
Education and training
Private nurses may teach and educate family caregivers essential care techniques, and personalised support strategies, ensuring you feel fully equipped to care for your loved one at home.
Trained medical home assistance
Quickly and easily use Mable to find a local and verified private nurse to ensure loved ones with support needs receive professional, comforting care in their own home, making daily life smoother and more enjoyable.
How Mable works for people receiving support
Whether you're a person with a disability or an older Australian, you get to choose who supports you and when.
What are the requirements to be a private nurse on Mable?
Nurses on Mable must have:
- At least 1 year of professional nursing experience;
- Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA) registration for at least 12 months as a Registered Nurse or Enrolled Nurse; and
- 2 professional or character references.
Use your funding to pay for support
If you wish to use NDIS funding or Support at Home funding (previously Home Care Package), make sure that your plan includes the nursing services that you are searching for in your job post.
What can a private nurse do on Mable?
In-home nurses can assist with a range of healthcare needs. Those requiring nursing support may utilise NDIS funding if the nursing support is included in their NDIS Care Plan and is directly related to their disability support needs. Similarly, Aged Care funding may cover in-home support from qualified nurses if nursing support is included in a Care Plan. Listed below are just some of the support services private nurses may offer depending on the individual’s requirements.
- Medication Management: Private nurses may offer expert medication management services, ensuring accurate administration, monitoring for adverse effects, and providing medication education to optimise treatment outcomes and medication safety.
- Pain Management: Private nurses may provide effective pain management solutions, including pain assessment, pharmacological interventions, and non-pharmacological therapies, to alleviate pain and improve overall well-being.
- Respiratory support: private nurses may provide support, care and planning to help you maintain respiratory health where this is compromised.
- Post-operative Recovery: Private nurses may offer attentive post-operative care, including wound care, pain management, mobility assistance, and monitoring for complications, facilitating a smooth and successful recovery process.
- Wound Care: Private nurses may provide expert wound care services, including wound assessment, cleansing, dressing changes, and infection control measures, promoting healing and preventing complications.
- Catheter Care: Private nurses may specialise in catheter care, ensuring proper catheter hygiene, monitoring for infections, and addressing catheter-related complications, enhancing comfort and minimising risks for individuals with catheters.
- Continence Management: Private nurses may offer personalised continence management solutions, including assessment, bladder training, and pelvic floor exercises, promoting dignity, independence, and quality of life for individuals with bladder or bowel control issues.
What can't a private nurse do on Mable?
If you have a behaviour care plan and the behaviour care plan includes restrictive practices, you are ineligible to use the Mable platform.
Nurses cannot perform restrictive services on Mable, including administering chemical restraints that are part of an authorised restrictive practice in a behaviour care plan.
6 reasons 31,000+ Australians trust Mable
- Stay independent
You have complete control over who comes into your home and when - Choose workers
You choose support workers who match your lifestyle, personality and needs - Control services
You pick the services and when they happen - More hours of support
You spend less on fees so you could get more hours of support, on average* - Verified workers
You can negotiate with vetted independent support workers - Simple online platform
You manage your support team in one easy platform
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FAQs
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Find support that suits your budget
Choose a support worker and mutually agree on rates.
* The 31% online employed provider fee represents the difference between what the client pays and the support worker earns as a percentage per hour of support for disability support workers. The rate is taken from the current price guide on their website as at April 2026.
The traditional provider fee is based upon a sample of traditional providers offering services in disability and aged care. The fee represents the amount the client pays and the support worker earns as a percentage per hour of support. Prices have been taken from their websites as at April 2026.
Self-management fees are calculated using HomeMade which is part of the same group of companies as Mable.
** The Mable rate is based on an average weekday hourly agreed rate for social support and domestic assistance in aged care and disability support observed on the Mable platform from 1 October 2025 - 31 March 2026. It includes an agreed rate of $59/hour plus Mable's Client Platform Fee of 7.95%, totalling $64.
The online-employed platform rate displayed is the hourly rate to consumers (including superannuation) of $69.09/hour for weekday shifts occurring between 6.00am and 8.00pm. The rate is taken from the current price guide on their website as at April 2026.
The traditional provider rate is taken from the NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits, valid from 1 July 2025. The line item is: - Assistance with Self Care Activities- Standard - Weekday - Daytime, item number 01_011_0107_1_1 of $70.23.