This course teaches modern, continence-promoting care for people with elimination problems: understanding the forms and causes of incontinence, assessing the individual continence profile (national expert standard), applying promoting measures (toilet training, bladder diary, pelvic floor, drinking and eating habits), using continence aids and skin protection correctly, handling catheters critically and understanding how to deal with faecal incontinence – always with the greatest respect for the person's privacy and dignity.
Course aims:
- Understand continence and incontinence (forms, significance, dignity)
- Recognise the causes of incontinence
- Assess the continence profile individually (national expert standard)
- Promote continence (training, behaviour, drinking)
- Handle continence aids, skin protection and catheters correctly
- Support elimination with dignity and respect
Self-study without supervision, assignments or evaluation of learning progress by instructors; the voluntary self-reflection is for your own orientation only. Your confirmation of participation becomes available once you have marked all modules as done yourself.