Incontinence management
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Modules - Incontinence Management
USE OUR PROMPTED VOIDING MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
Included in this module is a Microsoft Excel program that helps nursing staff manage our prompted voiding intervention. The program automates some of the tasks associated with the intervention's implementation and maintenance, thereby saving your staff time. No prior experience with Excel is needed. Step-by-step instructions guide you through the management process. And oh, yes--it's free. Click here to access the program.
INTEGRATE PROMPTED VOIDING WITH INTERVENTIONS THAT ENHANCE RESIDENTS' MOBILITY.
An integrated intervention--one that combines prompted voiding with a low-intensity exercise program--offers two major advantages:
- By improving or preventing decline in residents' mobility, it helps enhance their ability to use the toilet independently or with minimal staff assistance. This, in turn, can reduce the amount of staff time needed to provide toileting assistance while it also improves residents' continence.
- Combining programs uses staff time more efficiently. For starters, it cuts in half the travel time needed to locate residents (an estimated 3.4 minutes for a single trip), because only one (integrated) intervention is being provided, not two separate programs. For the same reason, it also reduces orientation time--the time it takes to introduce the service to a resident whenever it is provided.
To help you implement such a program, our training module on mobility decline prevention presents procedures for the FIT intervention, which combines prompted voiding with an exercise program. In addition to improving continence, FIT (for functional incidental training) has led to increases in residents' physical activity and their ability to stand, walk, and wheel themselves. Click here to access the mobility decline prevention module.
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