Basic Health Support
This course encompasses knowledge around good bladder and
bowel health including how to provide bowel care, catheter care and
encapsulates the semantics of good skin care; Offers in-depth assistance
about continence aids and appliances available for your client's needs and help you to understand safe food handling.
Some of the competencies achieved during class are:
- NDIS Code of Conduct, Practice Standards and High Intensity Skill Descriptors
- Basic anatomy and physiology of bladder, bowel and skin including neurological control
- Developing knowledge of urinary tract infections how to identify signs and symptoms and follow treatment plans
- Using best practice principles for incontinence including use of aids and appliances
- Use of indwelling urinary catheters
- Developing an understanding of how to assist clients with nutrition, hydration and activity to promote healthy bowel function
- Bowel Care
- Understanding the role and importance of documentation and record-keeping
- Scope of Practice, Competency and Escalation Protocols
- Safe Food Handling
- Infection, Prevention and Control
This program has three practicals:
- Attaching a leg bag to a catheter
- Applying a urinary sheath
- Administration of a micro-enema
Length of course: 4 Hours
*2024 Fee schedule.