Primary Care and Older People
Primary Care and Older People
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Continence Service
Preventing Pressure Ulcers
South Eastern HSC Trust Continence Service Team were
finalists in the NI Healthcare Awards.
Intimate Care: Clinical Nursing Team of the Year
February 2018
The team won this recognition for their work in the provision of
education for domiciliary carers.
Despite carers providing essential daily care for clients in their own
homes who are living with the indignity of incontinence, they are
sometimes not provided with the training and skills to confidently
provide this care.
For the client population that they serve, domiciliary carers delivering best practice in continence care
can prevent:
• Incontinence dermatitis
• Pressure damage
• Minimize their client's loss of dignity.
In response to this obvious need and in spite of an already extensive training programme and clinical
demands on their service, the Continence Team invested their time developing and implementing
a robust training schedule to deliver comprehensive two hour face to face training for all Trust
domiciliary carers.
The main improvements have been:
• Carers embrace and adhere to best practice because they have new knowledge
• Better working relationships within community teams
• Carers feel valued
• Prevention of potential harm to clients from inappropriate application of products and catheter
complications
• Appropriate use of resources.
Feedback from education sessions has been excellent, and the training is now included in the rolling
programme of education that is delivered annually to domiciliary care staff.