NDIS Practice Standards
Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities
m1-5.3 Tracheostomy: participant-specific training to the skills descriptor
Clause and reference m1-5.3, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Every worker has completed training in the participant's needs, managing tracheostomy-related incidents and the high intensity support skills descriptor for tracheostomy care without ventilation and for supporting a person dependent on ventilation, delivered by an appropriately qualified health practitioner or a person who meets the descriptor for tracheostomy suctioning and management.
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 tracheostomy training records with practitioner sign-off
- Competency checklist against the tracheostomy support skills and knowledge list
- Emergency drill records for tube dislodgement
- Annual competency review records
What assessors commonly find
- Workers rostered alone before competency sign-off
- Emergency response not practised
What evidence do I need?
For m1-5.3 Tracheostomy: participant-specific training to the skills descriptor, the evidence to bring is: Participant-specific tracheostomy training records with practitioner sign-off. It sits under Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities and our reference for it is m1-5.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me participant-specific tracheostomy training records with practitioner 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