Description
By the end of the course, candidates will be able to:
- Discuss legal and professional responsibilities associated with performing catheterisation in line with national guidance
- Follow procedures for gaining consent and correct documentation
- Describe relevant male and female anatomy
- List indications and contraindications for catheterisation
- Identify and discuss available range of catheters and equipment
- Understand the need to manage health and safety risk
- Demonstrate practical ability in performing urethral (male and female) and suprapubic catheterisation and catheter removal
- Demonstrate correct procedures for minimising infection
- Identify potential problems, describing how to prevent them and what necessary interventions are required should they occur
Course content
- Legal and professional considerations and responsibilities
- Consent for care and treatment
- Catheterisation definition, history and rationale for best practice
- Anatomy of male and female urinary system
- Catheterisation indications and contraindications
- Methods of catheterisation
- Potential problems and consequences of long-term catheterisation
- Risk assessment
- Catheter associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI)
- Infection prevention and control
- Catheter selection – types, materials, duration, sizes
- Preparation of equipment
- Urethral and suprapubic catheterisation procedures
- Catheter removal
- Catheter drainage
- Catheter instillations
- Intermittent catheterisation
- Suprapubic catheterisation indications and contraindications
- Suprapubic advantages and disadvantages
- Management of a suprapubic catheter
- Catheter troubleshooting
- Documentation
- Practical workshop and knowledge assessment