Complex Bowel Care Training – Ostomy and Stoma Care

Overview/Content

This complex care training provides support workers with essential knowledge and skills to assist participants with their High Intensity Support Daily Activity (HIDPA) relating to stoma care. Support workers learn how to assist participants to clean and maintain a healthy stoma, change an ostomy bag and troubleshoot common problems. It is an essential component of a support workers role to understand how to follow correct procedures detailed in a support plan for complex bowel care, and communicate and document bowel function. The training is competency based and assessment is undertaken of knowledge or knowledge and skills, depending on the delivery option selected. This course is consistent with the NDIS High Intensity Support Skills Descriptor for Complex Bowel Care relating to a participant living with a stoma.

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Learning Objectives

Describe strategies to maintain regular bowel function Troubleshoot common problems Follow a support plan for complex bowel care (stoma) Demonstrate the changing of an ostomy bag Demonstrate appropriate infection control precautions whilst cleaning a stoma

Delivery Mode

Live online or face-to-face training from 1 hour duration

Qualification Issued

Statement of Competence

More About This Course

We select our Premium Health trainers and assessors carefully. All are nurses with appropriate qualifications, technical expertise and experience in the health care, emergency first aid and education sectors. This enables them to provide you with quality training which is grounded in direct experience and knowledge of the field. Premium Health offers both face-to-face delivery and online live training and assessment. Courses are available onsite at your venue, online Australia wide or at our public course venue.

Premium Health are excellent and their offering is of tremendous value to the Disability sector. Their instructors are knowledgeable and engaging and our staff have the convenience of someone come on site to teach them. Classes which are offered virtually also provided a high level of interaction and useful information that our carers can take and apply to the work they do. We are very pleased with the services provided by Premium Health.

Kasia Baker
OD Advisor
Challenge Community Services

Complex Bowel Care Training – Ostomy and Stoma Care

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