💙 Stoma & Ostomy Care Training for Support Workers

Gain the knowledge, practical skills, and confidence to provide safe, dignified, and person-centred care for individuals living with a stoma. 🩺

This specialised training program equips support workers, aged care staff, disability support professionals, and community care workers with the essential skills required to safely assist clients with stoma and ostomy care while maintaining comfort, dignity, and quality of life.

Combining theoretical knowledge with practical demonstrations and hands-on learning, participants will develop the confidence to provide daily stoma care, identify complications, maintain infection control standards, and know when to escalate concerns to healthcare professionals.

🎯 What You’ll Learn

• ✅ Understand the anatomy and function of the elimination system and stomas.
• ✅ Provide safe and effective daily care for clients with stomas and ostomy appliances.
• ✅ Perform hygienic cleaning and maintenance of the stoma site.
• ✅ Follow best-practice infection prevention and control procedures. 🧼
• ✅ Apply personal hygiene and standard precautions when delivering care.

🩺 Stoma & Ostomy Management Skills

• ✔️ Empty and manage colostomy and ileostomy bags.
• ✔️ Replace and maintain ostomy appliances.
• ✔️ Burp and deodorise ostomy bags.
• ✔️ Monitor stoma output and appliance function.
• ✔️ Support client comfort, dignity, and independence.

🚨 Recognising Complications & Escalating Care

• ⚠️ Identify leakage and appliance failure.
• ⚠️ Recognise signs of infection.
• ⚠️ Monitor skin irritation and breakdown.
• ⚠️ Detect blockages and reduced output.
• ⚠️ Recognise changes in client health and wellbeing.

Participants will learn when and how to escalate concerns to healthcare professionals for further assessment and intervention.

👀 Monitoring & Client Safety

• ✅ Monitor stoma health and surrounding skin integrity.
• ✅ Recognise signs of deterioration.
• ✅ Support safe client positioning and comfort.
• ✅ Understand basic dietary considerations related to stoma care 🍎.
• ✅ Maintain ongoing observation and reporting.

📝 Documentation & Infection Control

• 📋 Complete accurate care documentation.
• 📋 Maintain charts and clinical records.
• ♻️ Safely dispose of waste and contaminated materials.
• 🧴 Clean, disinfect, and store ostomy care equipment correctly.
• 🦠 Follow infection control and standard precaution requirements.

🤲 Practical Hands-On Learning

• ✔️ Practical demonstrations.
• ✔️ Hands-on skills assessments.
• ✔️ Real-world care scenarios.
• ✔️ Best-practice stoma care techniques.

🌟 Who Should Attend?

• 👩‍🦽 Disability Support Workers
• 👵 Aged Care Workers
• 🏡 Community Care Staff
• 🤝 Support Workers
• 👨‍⚕️ Personal Care Assistants
• 📈 Team Leaders and Supervisors

🎓 Course Benefits

• ✨ Improve confidence in providing stoma and ostomy care.
• ✨ Strengthen infection control knowledge and practice.
• ✨ Enhance client comfort, dignity, and wellbeing.
• ✨ Recognise complications earlier and respond appropriately.
• ✨ Develop practical, workplace-ready skills.
• ✨ Support safer, higher-quality care outcomes.

🏆 Certificate of Completion Included

Participants who successfully complete the training will receive a Certificate of Completion signed by our Registered Nurse, Jude Partlett, recognising their achievement and commitment to delivering safe, high-quality care.