Catheterisation for Registered Practitioners

Overview

Catheterisation Training – Facilitated by registered nurses with first-hand clinical experience, these blended learning courses allow participants to demonstrate theoretical and practical simulation within a classroom environment.

3 CPD points

Why Is It Important?

It is estimated in the UK there are at least 90,000 people with long term urinary catheters (using them for three months or more).

Catheterisation is a common procedure, yet it carries many risks including trauma, urinary tract infection, encrustation, urethral perforation, bladder calculi neoplastic changes, and those with spinal injuries there is the risk of autonomic dysreflexia.

About 1 in 5 people who stay in hospital are fitted with a catheter, sometimes just as a matter of routine rather than requirement. It should therefore be the therapy of choice only when all other interventions are deemed to be inappropriate or have been unsuccessful.

Catheterisation Training Session Outline

• Female indwelling urethral catheterisation
• Male indwelling urethral catheterisation
• Catheter care
• Changing a suprapubic catheter
• Post procedure catheter positioning
• Post procedure check list
• Trial without urinary catheter
• Administering a catheter maintenance solution
• Intermittent self-catheterisation
• Emptying an indwelling urinary catheter bag

Aimed At

Healthcare professionals looking to enhance their current skills/knowledge and review current practice or looking to acquire new skills. (Courses including catheter insertion suitable to registered professionals only).

Facilitated By

Registered nurses with first-hand clinical experience.

How Many Can Attend Training?

We will run this course for a maximum of 10 delegates – however, for larger groups we can either provide multiple trainers on the same day or run multiple days to get everyone trained.

We run open courses for individuals to attend or we attend your place of work to facilitate this training.