Length of Course: 6 hours
Prerequisites: None
Cost: $165 per person (group and offsite bookings please enquire here)
Course Introduction
The Bowel and Stoma Care Training Course provides essential knowledge and practical skills for aged care, disability, and home care workers supporting clients who require bowel management and stoma care. This course focuses on promoting comfort, dignity, and safe care practices for individuals with complex bowel health needs.
Participants will gain an introduction to the gastrointestinal system and learn to understand a client’s individual bowel care needs, including strategies for promoting healthy bowel function. The training covers bowel-related medical conditions, medications, interventions, and the risks associated with conditions such as autonomic dysreflexia. Participants will also learn about documentation, escalation procedures, infection control, and relevant policies and procedures.
The course includes a practical component in which participants develop skills in safe bowel care techniques, including the administration of procedures such as micro enemas, while following correct medication charting and infection control practices.
Participants will also learn about different types of stomas, how to manage and change stoma appliances, and the medical conditions that may require a stoma. The course explores lifestyle and psychological considerations, ensuring support workers understand the broader impact of stoma care on a person’s wellbeing.
By completing this course, participants will gain the confidence and practical knowledge required to safely and respectfully support clients with bowel management and stoma care in home and community care settings.
Bowel & Stoma Care Training – Key Competences Covered
- An introduction to the gastrointestinal system
- Understand a client’s need for bowel care
- Promotion of a healthy bowel
- Medications, implications, and interventions
- Bowel-related medical conditions, autonomic dysreflexia
- Documentation and escalations
- Policy and procedures and infection control
- Practical element- administration techniques and procedures, including micro enema, medication chart and infection control
- Understanding different types of stomas
- How to manage and change a stoma
- Lifestyle and psychological factors
- Medical conditions that require a stoma
- Documentation and escalation
- Written exam component
- Practical: emptying and changing a stoma bag; exposure to products and equipment.
Bowel & Stoma Care Training Course Certification
A certificate of achievement is issued on completion of the course.