Complex Bowel Care Training – Ostomy And Stoma Care
Complex Bowel Care Training – Ostomy And Stoma Care
About this Unit
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.
Our Program
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.
| Complex Bowel Care Training – Ostomy And Stoma Care | |
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| Delivery Mode | Option 1 is 2 hours and 30 minutes of live online training and knowledge assessment. Option 2 is 3 hours of live online training with knowledge and practical skills assessment. Option 3 is 2 hours and 45 minutes of face-to-face training with knowledge and skills assessment. |
| Learning Objectives | All delivery modes include describing strategies to maintain regular bowel function, troubleshooting common problems, and following a support plan for complex bowel care involving a stoma. Delivery options 2 and 3 only include demonstrating the changing of an ostomy bag, demonstrating appropriate infection control precautions while cleaning a stoma, and demonstrating in a simulated environment the correct technique for changing a one-piece ostomy bag using correct infection control principles. |
| Qualifications | Option 1 is complex bowel care - ostomy and stoma care with live online training and knowledge assessment, resulting in a statement of completion. Option 2 is complex bowel care - ostomy and stoma care with live online training and both knowledge and skills assessment, resulting in a statement of competence. Option 3 is complex bowel care - ostomy and stoma care with face-to-face training and assessment, resulting in a statement of competence. |
| Validity of Certificate | 1 year |