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Complex Bladders & Bowels
This course will be delivered via Zoom webinar over two half-day sessions, as follows:
Includes an introduction to Clean Intermittent Catheterisation, management of indwelling catheters, Mitrofanoff care and bowel washouts via ACE and rectally.
We recommend that you attend our Healthy Bladders & Bowels training prior to attending these sessions.
Course tutor
Brenda Cheer
Paediatric Specialist Continence Nurse and ERIC Nurse
Brenda Cheer
Paediatric Specialist Continence Nurse & ERIC Nurse
Brenda started her nursing career in London in 1983. After her general training Brenda specialised in children’s nursing, and over the years has worked with adults and children, in London and Cardiff in both hospital and community settings. Since 2002 she has focussed on paediatric continence, working as Paediatric Specialist Continence Nurse at the University Hospital of Wales until summer 2018.
Brenda currently works two days a week as ERIC Nurse, the first person to take on this role, originally funded by the Department of Health. She works a further day a week as Paediatric Continence Nurse for Shine: Spina Bifida, Hydrocephalus Information, Networking and Equality.
The ERIC Nurse post was created to seek ways to improve early intervention into childhood continence problems. Brenda strives to increase awareness of children’s bladder and bowel health, by designing easy-to-understand information for parents and providing training for health care professionals and early year’s workers. She has produced a generic Children's Continence Pathway, which ERIC is promoting as a model of best practice. The ERIC Nurse project won a prestigious Nursing Times Award in 2016, and has stimulated articles in the nursing press. Brenda has re-written many of the ERIC leaflets, and is enjoying working at the heart of the charity she supports.
When she is not busy with her regular jobs, Brenda is much in demand as a freelance trainer and speaker. In her rare moments of spare time she enjoys the company of her three children and her husband John, a musician and music therapist.
Objectives
- To reinforce knowledge of healthy bladder and bowel management
- To promote understanding of a range of continence conditions
- To increase awareness of interventions, products and techniques available to manage complex conditions
- To increase confidence in managing continence conditions in the community.
Programme
Part 1: Complex Bowels
09.30 – 09.45 Welcome & Introduction
09.45 – 10.15 Session A: Recap on anatomy and physiology, bowel assessment and management of constipation using ERIC's Children's Continence Pathway
10.15 – 11.00 Session B: Children with complex bowel conditions:
- Neuropathic bowels
- Anorectal anomalies
- Intractable constipation
- Ulcerative colitis / Crohn’s disease
11.00 – 11.15 Break
11.15 – 12.30 Session C: Steps towards managing bowel emptying problems
- Use of suppositories/ enemas
- Simple rectal washouts
- More complex rectal washouts including a look at a range of current equipment
12.30 – 12.45 Break
12.45 – 13.05 Demonstration of Aquaflush products – Renew Medical
12.35 - 13.35 Session D: Surgical interventions
- Incontinent stomas – colostomy / ileostomy
- Continent stoma - ACE
13.35– 13.55 Q&A
13.55 – 14.00 Evaluation & Close
Part 2: Complex Bladders
09.30 - 09.45 Welcome back
09.45 – 10.15 Session A: Recap on anatomy and physiology, bladder assessment and healthy bladder management using ERIC's Children's Continence Pathway
10.15 - 11.00 Session B: Children with complex bladder conditions:
- Neuropathic bladders
- Congenital anomalies
- Urodynamic investigations
11.00 - 11.15 Break
11.15 – 12.30 Session C: Catheterisation
- Intermittent
- Indwelling
- Catheter accessories
12.30 - 12.45 Break
12.45 – 13.35 Session D: Surgical interventions
- Incontinent stomas – vesicostomy / urostomy
- Continent stomas – Mitrofanoff / Monti channel
- Bladder augmentation
- Outlet procedures
13.35 - 13.55 Q&A
13.55 - 14.00 Evaluation and close
Important information about this online event
This course will be delivered via Zoom webinar.
If you are not available to watch this session live, there will be access to the recording for 1 month but you will still need to register.
We would recommend that attendees access this training from home using a personal device if at all possible. If you are intending to use an NHS computer, please check that there are no firewalls in place that will prevent you from joining a Zoom webinar.
If you haven't received the joining link a few days before the webinar is due to start, please check your junk inbox first. If you still need assistance, please email [email protected]
Payment information
The cost of the course is £35 per person. Please note that we can only accept payment by card through our booking system.
The costs of delivering this course is being supported by Renew Medical.
Cancellation policy
If written notification is received 30 days before the course, we will issue a refund. We regret that no refunds can be made on bookings cancelled less than 30 days before the course. A colleague may attend in your place rather than forfeit the full course fee.
ERIC reserves the right to cancel the course. In the unlikely event of cancellation by ERIC, course fees paid will be refunded in full
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