http://www.yourliferdns.com.au/ RSS for YourLife, Your Health and Learning News en-JM Sat, 19 May 2012 16:11:29 GMT Sat, 19 May 2012 16:11:29 GMT http://www.yourliferdns.com.au/article/newsdetail.aspx?id=58 RDNS SA has appointed Judy Smith as its first Client Advocate. Judy Smith will be a voice for all clients and patients and will take responsibility for enhanced communication between RDNS staff and their clients. Judy was the highly-respected and widely-known RDNS Chief Nurse for 10 years. Her return delivers on a RDNS’ commitment to be a truly client-centric health service. Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.yourliferdns.com.au/article/newsdetail.aspx?id=57 With a reputation for quality care that spans more than a century, YourLife provides an accessible, extensive and diverse range of private healthcare services to patients of all ages . With more than 6,000 clients, YourLife's expert team of registered nurses, allied health professionals and care workers deliver specialist nursing services, home support, palliative care and disability services. Our health care workers are qualified to manage and administer care in chronic disease, mental health, dementia, continence,HIV/AIDS, immunisation, wound management and infection prevention. Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.yourliferdns.com.au/article/newsdetail.aspx?id=56 A partnership between Community CPS Australia (CCPS) and RDNS will help strengthen the importance of health and wellness in the community. The two community–based organisations have been working together over the last few years, with Community CPS staff volunteering during some of RDNS’s fundraising activities and also initiating their own fundraising efforts ’in-branch’ to provide important medical equipment for clients at the end of their life. Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.yourliferdns.com.au/article/newsdetail.aspx?id=55 The SA Training Awards gala dinner was held on Friday night, 16 September at the Adelaide Convention Centre, and MCed by Rob Kelvin, with over 500 people attending. The RDNS Education Centre was a finalist in the category Australian Council for Private Education and Training - Small Training Provider of the Year, along with the Australian Tourism College and Recruitment Centre and the Transport Training Solution/Allan Miller Driving School. Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.yourliferdns.com.au/article/newsdetail.aspx?id=54 An innovative approach to employee health and safety, which has massively reduced worker compensation claims, has won RDNS SA (Royal District Nursing Service) the Employer Excellence Award at this year’s SISA (Self-Insurers of South Australia) Awards. Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.yourliferdns.com.au/article/newsdetail.aspx?id=53 (Article from The Retiree - Spring Edition 2011) YourLife (and its parent company RDNS SA) has been providing specialist healthcare services for over 116 years when and where our patients need it. Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.yourliferdns.com.au/article/newsdetail.aspx?id=51 RDNS SA (Royal District Nursing Service) operate their mobile healthcare services throughout Adelaide and Queensland with over 650 mobile staff travelling extensively each day to visit patients. This represents around 85% of the workforce who use mobile devices to access record management systems every day to keep their 6,500 clients properly managed. Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.yourliferdns.com.au/article/newsdetail.aspx?id=50 Jodie Rugless* is the CIO of Royal District Nursing Service South Australia (RDNS SA). RDNS has been providing home nursing care for over 116 years, when and where its clients need it, with the aim of supporting individuals to choose to live independently, through the extensive and diverse services it provides. Rugless is charged with keeping that show on the road - quite literally - as Merri Mack found out. Rugless didn’t grow up dreaming of an IT career - she spent her youth in the outback, where computers were the exclusive domain of techie boys. But when she was 16 her parents purchased a Windows 3.1 PC and she developed an interest. Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.yourliferdns.com.au/article/newsdetail.aspx?id=49 In February this year, South-Australian based Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) deployed Optus’ Cloud offering for the organisation’s disaster recovery (DR) site. Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.yourliferdns.com.au/article/newsdetail.aspx?id=48 The completion by the Royal District Nursing Service of a strategic property review last month is a sign organisations are taking their property arrangements more seriously, says the firm that ndertook the review. Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:30:00 GMT