Welcome to Chapters of Care - Nursing Clinic

Our lovely clinic space is at - 20 Main Street LOBETHAL SA 5241.

Our venue is situated in a cute curvy Art Deco style house.

We have tried to ensure that the clinic and book shop are accessible.

Lobethal is 45min drive from the centre of Adelaide CBD; 50min from Marion Shopping Centre; 40min from Elizabeth City Centre and 25min from Mt Barker.

We are open & consulting - Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays. 10am to 4pm. 

Last appt time @ 14:30. You might like a Saturday appointment if you work weekdays.

We are a private, fee-for-service provider. 

Like nearly all Registered Nurses, we don't have a Medicare Provider Number, therefore we are unable to bill to Medicare. Nurse Practitioners do have a Provider Number.

We can invoice NDIS participants and this occurs after service delivery as per NDIS rules. We will need to collect a few details for NDIS invoicing purposes ie Ref Number, self/plan manager details and this is all covered in our Referral Request Form.  We don't have any contracts with Aged Care providers, so will need to set this up individually case by case.

We have tried to ensure that the building is accessible for people with walkers, wheelchairs, prams and other mobility equipment & their users. 

We have additional photos and descriptions here on the website.

Please do let us know if the ramps are not outside and ready at the time. We try to ensure they are positioned ready. We use moveable ramps to reduce theft opportunity. Please call us on 8389 7972 if there are any issues.

Yes,  absolutely, we must have relevant Police Clearances, Working with Children Clearances, Disability related, AHPRA (Nursing) registration, Public Liability & Professional Indemnity Insurances, full Drivers Licence, Comprehensive car insurance. We also undertake related training modules as required by NDIS Quality & Safeguards. It's not an NDIS requirement to have policies and procedures in place as we are currently 'unregistered provider', but we do because we have high standards for our service delivery.  

Yes, we can help Self-Managed and Plan-Managed participants. Unfortunately at this time we can't help Agency-Managed participants as we are not yet a "Registered Provider". We don't currently have any contracts with MAC/CHSP providers, for Aged Care clients, but please let us know if we can help. We can also assist fee-paying or compensable clients, so please contact us for a quote. NDIS rules state that Participants must be billed at the same rate that any other service user would pay. eg NDIS participant cannot be charged $100 for 1 hr assistance, when the private fee is $70/hr. 

• Continence Assessments - for Adults & Children - discuss bladder & bowel concerns, product review, advice, letter of support for funding needs.
• Product ideas - Arranging samples of containment products, uridomes, catheter products - to trial
• Catheter Assessments - indwelling (IDC) male & female and suprapubic (SPC) and intermittent catheter use (IC)
• Catheter changes ongoing (IDC, SPC) - limited capacity.
• Catheter troubleshooting advice - sometimes catheters need some expert tips.  
• Education sessions - speaking with small groups and also at professional      study days

• Children's DAY time toilet training (Paediatric focused OT might be better fit)
• Wound & Ostomy Care - general. 
• Competency Training for Support Workers (eg to educate SW's to provide      nursing tasks like administering rectal laxatives, using intermittent catheters on a client). We are unable to supervise SW's on an frequent & ongoing basis as required by NDIS in order to 'delegate a task' from an RN to a SW. We are providing general training education sessions and mentoring for continence related skills. In the meantime, please contact a  Registered Training Organisation for this type of training. 
• Products - we don't endorse any particular brand of products. Products like pads, catheters, drain bags etc are individual choices, as to what works best      for you. We can certainly make suggestions on products that we think will suit you based on our knowledge and arrange pad samples from the manufacturers. 

 It is an AHPRA requirement that we complete at least 20hrs of self-education each year. We attend local & interstate study days, conferences, online learning via webinars, read books & journals, catch up with product company rep's to learn about new product ranges and keep study records in case we are audited! 

We are also proud members of the following professional bodies - 

• Continence Foundation of Australia (CFA)
• Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA) 
• International Continence Society (ICS) 
• South Australian Country Women's  Association (SACWA)

Amanda commenced the business "Continence Confidence" in June 2021 as a sole trader. She joined forces with her sister Sarah in July 2025 to create "Chapters of Care".  

We are a proudly South Aussie owned & operated girl-powered small business in a regional area!

No - Our business partnership is our own.  We are not affiliated with any continence product manufacturer, medical supplier, products distributors or the like. We are proud to support local products to use day to day, as best we can. Occasionally, we might receive a small payment or gift eg for giving an educational talk. We always try to adhere to principles of honesty, integrity, quality and trustworthiness. Unfortunately, there are always bad apples in every bunch that spoil things for the rest of us trying to provide a decent, caring service. If anything changes, we will declare it.