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NDIS Practice Standards

Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities

m1-8.3 Subcutaneous injections: policies, procedures and worker training plan

Clause and reference m1-8.3, 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 participants who need subcutaneous injections and related medication.

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

  • Subcutaneous injection policy and procedure including sharps safety
  • Training plan for workers administering injections
  • Medication administration policy cross-referenced to injections

What assessors commonly find

  • Procedure does not cover sharps disposal
  • Training plan not current

What evidence do I need?

For m1-8.3 Subcutaneous injections: policies, procedures and worker training plan, the evidence to bring is: Subcutaneous injection policy and procedure including sharps safety; Training plan for workers administering injections. It sits under Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities and our reference for it is m1-8.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.

Answer the reviewer first

Show me subcutaneous injection policy and procedure including sharps safety, 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

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