Aged Care Quality Standards
ACQS25-5.3 Appropriate use of antimicrobials
Clause and reference 15-30(3) of the Aged Care Rules 2025 · our reference ACQS25-5.3
The requirement
The provider encourages and backs people, the registered health practitioners, aged care workers and others to use antimicrobials the right way, to hold back growing resistance.
Our wording of the requirement: our statement of what the clause asks, not the instrument verbatim. Source: Aged Care Quality Standards on the compliance desk.
The evidence to bring
- Antimicrobial stewardship policy and prescribing audits
- Education for workers and prescribers
- Antimicrobial use data
What assessors commonly find
- No monitoring of antibiotic prescribing
- Prophylactic antibiotics without review
What evidence do I need?
For ACQS25-5.3 Appropriate use of antimicrobials, the evidence to bring is: Antimicrobial stewardship policy and prescribing audits; Education for workers and prescribers. It sits under Standard 5 - Clinical care and the instrument's own clause is 15-30(3). Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me antimicrobial stewardship policy and prescribing audits, and tell me who owns it and when it was last reviewed.
That is the question a quality assessor opens with for this requirement. Have the record on the desk and the date it was last reviewed to hand.
Read your own evidence against this clause
Paste your policy or evidence pack and the reading marks, line by line, whether a phrase from this requirement appears and quotes your own words when it does. It is a reading of your text, not a compliance result; a quality assessor decides whether a requirement is met. Read your pack, free See the paid reading