NDIS Practice Standards
Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities
m1-6.3 Urinary catheter: participant-specific training to the skills descriptor
Clause and reference m1-6.3, 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, their type of catheter and the high intensity support skills descriptor for catheter changing and management, delivered by an appropriately qualified health practitioner or a person who meets the descriptor for urinary catheter changing 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
- Catheter training records specific to the participant's catheter type
- Competency assessment against the urinary catheter support skills and knowledge list
- Trainer qualification records
- Annual competency review records
What assessors commonly find
- Training on in-out catheters only, where the participant has a suprapubic catheter
- No annual competency check
What evidence do I need?
For m1-6.3 Urinary catheter: participant-specific training to the skills descriptor, the evidence to bring is: Catheter training records specific to the participant's catheter type. It sits under Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities and our reference for it is m1-6.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me catheter training records specific to the participant's catheter type, 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