NDIS Practice Standards
Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities
m1-4.3 Enteral feeding: participant-specific training to the skills descriptor
Clause and reference m1-4.3, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Every worker supporting a participant who needs enteral feeding has completed training in that participant's needs, the type and method of feeding and the regime, and the high intensity support skills descriptor for enteral feeding, delivered by an appropriately qualified health practitioner or a person who meets that descriptor.
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
- Participant-specific enteral feeding training records with trainer sign-off
- Competency checklist against the enteral feeding skills and knowledge list
- Evidence of trainer qualification
- Dates of annual competency re-check
What assessors commonly find
- Workers trained on a different tube type to the participant's
- No record of who delivered the training
What evidence do I need?
For m1-4.3 Enteral feeding: participant-specific training to the skills descriptor, the evidence to bring is: Participant-specific enteral feeding training records with trainer sign-off. It sits under Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities and our reference for it is m1-4.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me participant-specific enteral feeding training records with trainer sign-off, 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