NDIS Practice Standards
Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities
m1-8.4 Subcutaneous injections: participant-specific training and condition knowledge
Clause and reference m1-8.4, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Every worker has completed training in the participant's injection and medication needs and the high intensity support skills descriptor for subcutaneous injections, delivered by an appropriately qualified health practitioner or a person who meets that descriptor; workers must also have a basic understanding of the participant's related health condition.
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 injection training records with practitioner sign-off
- Competency assessment against the subcutaneous injection skills and knowledge list
- Training content on the related condition, such as diabetes
- Annual competency review records
What assessors commonly find
- Workers unable to explain the purpose of the medication
- Condition-specific training missing
What evidence do I need?
For m1-8.4 Subcutaneous injections: participant-specific training and condition knowledge, the evidence to bring is: Participant-specific injection training records with practitioner sign-off. It sits under Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities and our reference for it is m1-8.4. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me participant-specific injection 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