NDIS support items, descriptors, and price limits change each quarter. Verify the current line on the NDIS Pricing Arrangements before claiming. This page does not include rate amounts. Last reviewed 28 April 2026.
- Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living
- Registered Nurse
- Mental Health Nurse
- Nurse Practitioner
Nursing — Capacity Building (Improved Daily Living)
Nursing services delivered to NDIS participants under Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living. Covers disability-related nursing assessment, complex care planning, training of support workers, and clinical oversight.
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What this support covers
- Disability-related nursing assessment and care planning.
- Training and competency assessment of support workers in delegated care tasks.
- Clinical oversight of complex disability-related health needs.
- Mental health nursing where the participant has co-occurring psychosocial disability.
Eligibility to claim
- Participant has Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living funding.
- Nursing is for disability-related needs, not acute or primary-care nursing funded through Medicare or the health system.
Your notes must show
Documentation tests — what notes need to demonstrate to satisfy the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission and survive plan review.
- Date, start time, end time, and total face-to-face duration.
- NDIS plan goal(s) addressed.
- Disability-related nursing focus (e.g. PEG management training, seizure plan, complex bowel care).
- Assessment findings and clinical observations.
- Intervention delivered, dose, and rationale.
- Support-worker training delivered, with competency outcomes documented.
- Capacity-building outcomes — increased independence or safer support delivery.
- Plan for next session and review trigger.
Common audit failures
Patterns the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission and NDIA plan reviewers flag.
- Notes describe acute nursing care more appropriately funded by Medicare or the health system.
- Support-worker training delivered without documented competency outcomes.
- Capacity-building outcomes not articulated.
- No clear distinction between NDIS-funded disability nursing and mainstream community nursing.
Reasonable and necessary criteria
Section 34 of the NDIS Act 2013 — every funded support must satisfy these tests. Documentation should make each test self-evident.
- Disability-related nursing need, not acute or primary-care nursing.
- Evidence base for the intervention.
- Value for money relative to alternatives.
- Most appropriately funded by the NDIS rather than the health system.
Related NDIS items
Templates for NDIS providers
Note templates inside Grounded Scribe that produce NDIS-aligned documentation — progress reports, plan-review summaries, functional capacity assessments, behaviour support plans, and session notes that meet Practice Standards.
In-depth reading in the Library
- NDIS Documentation with AI: Writing Compliant Reports FasterNDIS documentation is notoriously time-consuming. AI clinical documentation tools can help allied health practitioners write compliant progress notes, functional assessments, and plan review reports in a fraction of the time.
- NDIS Plan Reassessment Reports: An Allied Health GuideNDIS plan reassessments hinge on demonstrating progress toward goals and identifying continuing functional need. This guide outlines the report structure NDIA decision-makers expect and the common failure modes that result in reduced funding.
Source authority
Documentation tests on this page reference the descriptor conditions and Practice Standards covered in our existing Library guides. Always confirm current rules against the official NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Practice Standards.
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