Complex Bowel Care Training – Ostomy and Stoma Care

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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.


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
Demonstrate in a simulated environment the correct technique for changing a one-piece ostomy bag using correct infection control principles


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.




Public Dates

Our public training option requires students to complete online e-learning and assessment prior to attending a skills-based assessment session using an equipment pack. You will be turned away from the assessment session if you have not completed your pre-work and will be required to rebook the training at full cost. Your equipment pack will be shipped to your nominated address prior to the training and must be brought to the session. To allow for shipment lead times, enrolments for this course will close 14 days prior to course commencement. Please book in advance to avoid disappointment.

Public training dates are typically released 3 months in advance. If sessions for your preferred training period are not yet available, we encourage you to revisit our website at a later date. Please note the below pricing is inclusive of GST.

Course TitleTraining BeginsSeats LeftPrice
AUD
 
Complex Bowel Care - Ostomy and Stoma Care : Live Online Training with Knowledge and Skills Assessment
Pathway: 1 hour live online assessment and online e-Learning
Wed, 25 Nov 2026
2:30pm - 3:30pm
14280.00
 
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