Mobility Decline Prevention
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Modules - Mobility Decline Prevention
PROVIDE REGULAR TOILETING ASSISTANCE, PREFERABLY PROMPTED VOIDING
FIT follows best practice guidelines for incontinence care in that it calls on nursing home staff to provide incontinent residents with toileting assistance every two hours during the daytime (roughly 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.). Toileting assistance can take a number of different forms. It can mean checking and changing diapers; habit training; scheduled toileting; or prompted voiding.
Of these various management options, only prompted voiding has been shown to significantly improve continence (1). This is one reason we strongly recommend that you provide prompted voiding as part of the FIT program.
You can review prompted voiding procedures in Step 2 of our incontinence management training module. Or click here to view our prompted voiding protocol form.
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