NDIS Practice Standards
Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities
m1-7.2 Ventilator: policies, procedures and worker training plan
Clause and reference m1-7.2, 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 who is ventilator dependent.
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
- Ventilator support policy and procedure covering alarms and manual ventilation
- Training plan for workers supporting ventilator-dependent participants
- Equipment cleaning and maintenance procedure
What assessors commonly find
- Procedure omits manual ventilation in an emergency
- Training plan not linked to the specific device
What evidence do I need?
For m1-7.2 Ventilator: policies, procedures and worker training plan, the evidence to bring is: Ventilator support policy and procedure covering alarms and manual ventilation. It sits under Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities and our reference for it is m1-7.2. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me ventilator support policy and procedure covering alarms and manual ventilation, 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