Complex Bowel Support: Ostomy and Stoma Care

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Published May 23, 2025
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Explore the essentials of stoma and ostomy care, from everyday care to knowing when to seek medical support.

Why take this course?

When providing complex bowel support, assisting a person with ostomy and stoma care requires an added layer of care, training and safety precautions.

In this course, we’ll go through how to clean the stoma, change an ostomy pouch and troubleshoot common problems, – all while upholding safety, privacy and respect.

This online course has been created with expert training content from Premium Health and forms part of our series of 7 High Intensity Daily Personal Activities eLearning modules.


What you’ll gain

This course provides the theoretical knowledge that underpins competence and directly addresses the High Intensity Skills Descriptors. We’ll cover:

  • The components of the digestive system

  • Ostomy and stoma positions

  • Types of ostomy and stoma bags and pouches

  • Draining, cleaning and changing a pouch

  • Supporting a person to manage with an ostomy and stoma

  • Troubleshooting common problems and when to seek medical support


Who’s it for?

  • Support Workers 

  • Frontline Leaders

  • Allied Health Professionals

  • Anyone involved in supporting people with bowel care


What’s included?

  • 60 minute eLearning module

  • Practical diagrams, graphics and examples to show you how to apply your learnings in the real world

  • Certificate of completion

  • Access to refresh your knowledge at any time, as advised by the NDIS Commission.

Pathway to Competency

The NDIS Commission’s High Intensity Skills Descriptors require that these supports are delivered by a competent worker. Learners can build on the theoretical foundations of this module by completing a skills competency assessment with Premium Health to meet this requirement. Competency assessments are:

  • delivered by qualified health professionals, as required by the NDIS Commission

  • available Australia wide, both online and face-to-face.

  • inclusive of a statement of competency for audit evidence and peace of mind 

  • discounted DSC learners at $99 per person, with further group discounts available.

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