Continence Care 

Read the illustrated guides to continence care on ClinicalSkills.net

You will need to be logged into ClinicalSkills.net to use these pages: Go to https://shu.app.clinicalskills.net, enter your user name and password. You must have set up your account to do this. For further information on how to login to your ClinicalSkills.net account please click here: How to Login to ClinicalSkills.net 

Once logged in to your account, click on Guides in the main Dashboard area and search for the following guides:

• Urinary continence assessment  

• Fluid intake and continence care 

• Conservative management of urinary incontinence 

• Management of faecal incontinence 

• Constipation: causes and assessment  

• Constipation: treatment  

• Management of diarrhoea 

• Emptying a catheter bag  

There is a separate page on the repository for specimen collection and assessment.

Click on the button below to navigate to the 'Assessments' area of ClinicalSkills.net. Please make sure you're logged into ClinicalSkills.net already, otherwise you may not be able to open and take the test. Once you have reached the 'Assessments' area, select 'Standard Assessments' and then click on the tests called 'Continence Care' or 'Bowel Care' to begin. You will need to score 80% or more to pass. Make sure you've read the ClinicalSkills.net procedures thoroughly before taking the test as many of the answers will be found within there! 

Child nursing students may find the following test helpful, which can be found in the 'Local Assessments' area of clinicalskills.net:

Search for these guides using the clinicalskills.net search tool:

Bladder retraining 

Bladder scanning  

Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures (9th Edition): Elimination Pages 9 - 40

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