NDIS Practice Standards
Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities
m1-9.3 Complex wound management: training on daily-life impacts and the skills descriptor
Clause and reference m1-9.3, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Every worker supporting a participant with complex wound management is trained in the participant's needs affected by the wound regime, such as showering, toileting and mobility, and in the high intensity support skills descriptor for complex wound management, by an appropriately qualified health practitioner or a person who meets that descriptor.
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
- Training records covering showering, toileting and mobility with the wound regime
- Competency assessment against the complex wound management skills and knowledge list
- Trainer qualification records
- Annual competency review records
What assessors commonly find
- Training covers dressings but not daily living impacts
- Trainer not shown to meet the descriptor
What evidence do I need?
For m1-9.3 Complex wound management: training on daily-life impacts and the skills, the evidence to bring is: Training records covering showering, toileting and mobility with the wound regime. It sits under Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities and our reference for it is m1-9.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me training records covering showering, toileting and mobility with the wound regime, 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