NDIS Practice Standards
Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities
m1-5.2 Tracheostomy: policies, procedures and worker training plan
Clause and reference m1-5.2, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider has appropriate policies and procedures, including a worker training plan, for supporting each participant with a tracheostomy.
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
- Tracheostomy care policy and procedure
- Training plan for workers supporting tracheostomy participants
- Infection control steps for suctioning in the procedure
What assessors commonly find
- Procedure does not distinguish fenestrated and non-fenestrated tubes
- Training plan missing
What evidence do I need?
For m1-5.2 Tracheostomy: policies, procedures and worker training plan, the evidence to bring is: Tracheostomy care policy and procedure; Training plan for workers supporting tracheostomy participants. It sits under Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities and our reference for it is m1-5.2. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me tracheostomy care policy and procedure, 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