navigation search rdns type charity industry nursing healthcare founded 1894 headquarters adelaide australia slogan build community capacity to optimise health and wellbeing . website http www.rdns.org.au rdns royal district nursing service of south australia was established in 1894 . 1 rdns sa royal district nursing service south australia is a not for profit community health and care provider in adelaide australia . the royal district nursing service is known as rdns in south australia and silver chain throughout the rest of australia . contents 1 history 2 locations 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit rdns logo until 2010 bush district nurse the royal district nursing society of south australia initially the district trained nursing society d.t.n.s. was inaugurated on 12 july 1894 following 12 months work by a trained nurse in the adelaide suburb of bowden . this experiment which was financed by the philanthropic barr smith and eider families had convinced founders dr. allan campbell m.l.c. rev. b.c. stephenson and nightingale nurse matron edith noble of the local demand for a district nursing service . meanwhile the financial viability of such a venture was being demonstrated by the pirie street nursing sisters association which was organised by the inner city pirie street wesleyan methodist church but supported by public donations . founder 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 . subsequently in 1937 the d.t.n.s. was renamed the district and bush nursing society of s.a. inc. ; in 1965 the royal prefix was granted and in 1973 bush was removed from the title . 2 in september 2011 rdns merged with the silver chain nursing association of western australia . due to the strong history of rdns within south australia the rdns name and branding continues to be used within that state . locations edit rdns provides care within local communities and as such has bases located throughout adelaide . see also edit nursing portal royal district nursing service victoria references edit http www.healthintransition2009.org.au about.html http www.abs.gov.au ausstats abs . nsf featurearticlesbytitle 911b5af72f818795ca2569de0024ed5a opendocument external links edit rdns website rdns video retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title royal district nursing service south australia & oldid 715446465 categories nursing organizationsmedical and health organisations based in australiahidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 april 2016 at 21 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view