High intensity daily personal activities
Yesability Community Services as a NDIS registered provider is supporting participants who rely on high intensity daily personal activities, by ensuring our workers have the skills and knowledge described in the high intensity support skills descriptors. Appropriate policies and procedures are in place, including a training plan for workers, that relate to the support provided to each participant with respect to the necessary services.
High intensity personal daily activity supports are:
- Complex bowel care
Each Participant requiring complex bowel care receives appropriate
support relevant (proportionate) to their individual needs.
- Enteral feeding and management
Each participant requiring enteral feeding and management receives appropriate nutrition, fluids and medication, relevant and proportionate to their individual needs.
- Severe dysphagia management
Every participant requiring severe dysphagia management receives appropriate support that is relevant and proportionate to their individual needs and preferences.
- Tracheostomy management
Participants with a tracheostomy receives appropriate suctioning and management of their tracheostomy relevant and proportionate to their individual needs.
- Urinary catheter management
Each participant with a catheter receives appropriate catheter management relevant and proportionate to their individual needs.
- Ventilator management
Participants requiring ventilator management receives appropriate support relevant and proportionate to their individual needs and the specific ventilator used.
- Subcutaneous injections
Each and every participants requiring subcutaneous injections receives appropriate support relevant and proportionate to their individual needs and specific subcutaneous injections and medication administered.
- Complex wound management
Each participant is involved in the assessment and development of the plan for their complex wound management. With their consent, the participant’s health status is subject to regular and timely review by an appropriately qualified health practitioner. The plan identifies how risks, incidents and emergencies will be managed, including required actions and escalation to ensure participant wellbeing.
