NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: support provision environment
core-26.2 Medication: workers understand effects, side-effects and incident steps
Clause and reference core-26.2, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Every worker responsible for administering medication understands its effects and side-effects and what to do if a medication incident occurs.
Our wording of the requirement: our statement of what the clause asks, not the instrument verbatim. Source: NDIS Practice Standards on the compliance desk.
The evidence to bring
- Medication administration training and competency assessments
- Medication information sheets available to workers
- Medication incident procedure and incident register entries
What assessors commonly find
- Competency never reassessed
- Medication errors not reported as incidents
What evidence do I need?
For core-26.2 Medication: workers understand effects, side-effects and incident steps, the evidence to bring is: Medication administration training and competency assessments; Medication information sheets available to workers. It sits under Core module: support provision environment and our reference for it is core-26.2. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me medication administration training and competency assessments, 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