NDIS Practice Standards
Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities
m1-8.2 Subcutaneous injections: written or phone orders from the prescriber
Clause and reference m1-8.2, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
There are documented written or phone orders from the health practitioner prescribing the medication that trained workers may give by subcutaneous injection.
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
- Written prescriber orders or documented phone orders for each injectable medication
- Medication charts matching the current orders
- Process for confirming phone orders in writing
What assessors commonly find
- Injections given without a current documented order
- Phone orders not recorded
What evidence do I need?
For m1-8.2 Subcutaneous injections: written or phone orders from the prescriber, the evidence to bring is: Written prescriber orders or documented phone orders for each injectable medication. It sits under Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities and our reference for it is m1-8.2. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me written prescriber orders or documented phone orders for each injectable medication, 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