Carer training · Health consultancy · United Kingdom
April Home Care is the practice of Prof. Dr. Nedime Köşgeroğlu (RN, PhD), a professor of nursing who spent over forty years in academic nursing in Türkiye — heading a university nursing department, publishing over 130 peer-reviewed papers, and directing municipal services for older and disabled residents. She now works with families and care teams here in the UK.
“Care is the unique function of nursing — being with the person, around the clock.”
Messages go straight to Professor Köşgeroğlu’s phone. She reads and answers them herself.
Prof. Dr. Nedime Köşgeroğlu
RN · PhD · Professor of Nursing
Former Professor of Nursing, Eskişehir Osmangazi University.
What we hold to
Every person is an adult with a history, a household and preferences of their own — never a set of tasks to be worked through.
Care is at its best when it is unhurried and follows the person's own pace. That principle runs through everything we teach.
What is seen and heard in a home stays there. Families decide what is shared, with whom, and when.
Our services
Every arrangement starts with a conversation about what is actually needed — not a fixed package.
Teaching relatives who look after someone at home how to do it safely and without exhausting themselves.
We cannot expect people whose own health has been broken to produce health for others.
Structured teaching and supervision for care workers, delivered by a career nurse educator.
An independent, informed view when a household is deciding what to do next.
Looking at a home with a nurse's eye and advising on what would make it safer.
Help making sense of a care system that is difficult to navigate from the outside.
How it works
No contracts to sign before you know whether we can help, and no obligation after the first conversation.
Send a WhatsApp message describing the situation. You will get a reply from Professor Köşgeroğlu herself, usually the same day, with an honest view of whether we can help.
A structured session — online or at your home — to understand the household, the condition and what is already being done. Typically 60 to 90 minutes.
You receive a written summary: what we discussed, what we advise, and the practical steps in order of priority. Yours to keep and to share with your GP.
Where hands-on teaching is needed, sessions are arranged individually or for the whole family. Follow-up is agreed with you, never assumed.
About the founder
Professor Köşgeroğlu trained as a nurse at Hacettepe University in Ankara, took her master’s in surgical nursing at Cumhuriyet University, and returned to Hacettepe for her PhD. She then spent close to three decades at Eskişehir Osmangazi University, rising from lecturer to full Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences and serving as Head of the Nursing Department.
Alongside the university post she worked in Eskişehir Metropolitan Municipality’s health and social affairs directorate, on services for disabled and older residents, and with the city council’s women’s board. Her published research covers surgical nursing, hospital infection, breast cancer in women, chemotherapy, patient satisfaction and gender equality.
From 2008 to 2010 she set up and ran the Women’s Counselling and Solidarity Centre for the same directorate. Earlier, in 2005 and 2006, she taught on a World Bank-supported programme in patient and elderly care — the same work this practice does now, twenty years on.
Now retired from the university, she lives in the United Kingdom and continues to teach — bringing a completed academic career in nursing to families and care teams here.
“Living is beauty. Sharing is beauty. And to be healthy is life. Our job is humanity.”
Alongside her academic work, Professor Köşgeroğlu is a published writer.
In practice
Consultations and teaching sessions in people's own homes, where the questions are real and the answers have to be practical.
Who we support
Not sure whether your situation fits? Send a message describing it — you will get an honest answer, including if we are not the right help.
You are doing the caring yourself and want to know you are doing it safely and well.
Guidance and reassurance for parents in the first weeks at home.
Understanding what recovery will involve and how to prepare the home for it.
Diabetes, Alzheimer's, multiple myeloma and similar diagnoses explained in plain terms.
Teams who want training, supervision or course design from a nurse educator.
Working out how care here is arranged, and what you are entitled to ask for.
References
Reproduced with the wording of the original letters and messages, published with permission.
“I work with children with special needs and use therapeutic activities in my sessions. When I wanted to bring in drama techniques I turned to Professor Nedime. Through online and face-to-face meetings her follow-through, confidence and communication were excellent. I will continue working with her.”
“Based on the portfolio she had shared with us, I believe the consultancy I will receive from Professor Nedime Köşgeroğlu will ease my concerns. I have asked to arrange further sessions before the end of the year.”
“Your academic work at the university, the care you give here in the UK, and the books you have written have touched a great many lives. That you turned your knowledge and experience not only into a career but into something useful to other people is a stance worth following.”
Get in touch
Everyone needs someone they can rely on. There is no form to fill in and no waiting list to join. Send a WhatsApp message describing your situation, and Professor Köşgeroğlu will reply from her own phone.
April Home Care provides training, education and health consultancy. Sessions are delivered online or in person, to families and to care teams.
We do not provide regulated personal care — washing, dressing, toileting, medication administration or nursing procedures. That work requires registration with the Care Quality Commission, and where a household needs it we will say so and help you find a registered provider.
This is not an emergency service. In an emergency call 999. For urgent medical advice call NHS 111 or contact your GP.
