Bowel Care & Management

Description

Overview

Our Bowel Care training will enable learners to deliver effective and thorough support to individuals who have difficulty managing their bowel habits due to immobility or illness. Bowel Care training is aimed at support workers with no experience of bowel care and can also be attended by nurses who may like to update their knowledge.

Details

What will I learn on this course?

• The ‘normal’ bowel function
• A ‘normal’ bowel motion
• Faecal incontinence
• Constipation (definition and causes)
• Constipation and learning disabilities
• Recognising and treating constipation
• Physical health and medication review
• Monitoring (stool observations/The Bristol Stool Chart)
• Leadership
• Faecal impaction
• Diarrhoea
• Healthy Bowel

Certification

Successful candidates will receive certification of achievement.