RCN Bladder and Bowel Learning Resource
This resource aims to support RCN members to manage incontinence for people with bladder and bowel problems. With an introductory video from the Bladder and Bowel Forum, here you can increase your skills around supporting patients with the right care.
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Available to RCN members
Who is this resource for?
This resource is aimed at nurses and nursing support workers across all settings and levels of practice, including students of health, social work and care professions.
What will this resource give me?
- general overview of the role of nurses in supporting patients with bladder and bowel problems
- information on how the bladder and bowel works
- types of urinary incontinence and bowel incontinence
- guide to bladder infections and bowel problems
- advice on bladder and bowel medication
- how to discuss continence and carrying out a continence assessment
- information on testing urine
- guide to the Bristol Stool Chart
- top tips to share with patients on living with incontinence
- barriers to maintaining continence, such as physical, psychological, emotional, cognitive or environmental
- suggestions for equipment and devices that can help with the management of incontinence, for men and for women
- when someone may need specialist care
- information on disease-specific bladder and bowel problems
- understanding neurogenic bladder dysfunction
- two case studies on assessing and treating patients with bowel and bladder concerns
- information on the RCN Bladder and Bowel Forum project working group
- glossary of terms.
Resource last reviewed
21 Aug 2022
Resource lead
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