Royal District Nursing Service (South Australia)

The Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) is a not-for-profit community health and care provider with headquarters in Keswick, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.

), following 12 months work by a trained nurse, named McLellan, in the Adelaide suburb of Bowden.

[1] This experiment, which was supported by the Anglican Church and financed by the philanthropic Barr Smith and Elder families, convinced founders, Dr Allan Campbell, Rev.

Joseph Berry was on the inaugural committee of the D.T.N.S., although his Pirie Street Nursing Sisters' Association remained independent until 1898.

She took care of over 150 patients making 1612 visits to see them, taking advantage of free bus rides, a bicycle and a ferry crossing.