Indwelling Urinary Catheter Care

Course details

The Urinary Catheter Care course introduces the participant to the function of, indications for and rationale of using Indwelling Urinary Catheters in patient/client care and the fundamentals skills relating to the effective care and management of the patient/client during urinary catheterisation and its use and maintenance.

For all enquiries on this course please email; bookings@westfieldinstitute.ie. Westfield Institute is a sister company of Portobello Institute, please refer to this website for further details and information on these programmes.

Qualifications Gained

• An Bord Altranais Category 1 approved certificate for registered nurses and midwives only.
• Westfield Institute Certificate of Completion

Course Venue

• Please note that this course takes place in the Trinity School of Nursing and Midwifery Skills Lab.

Entry Requirements

• Entry to the course is by direct application to the college. This course is only suitable for registered nurses and midwives.

Course Content Modules

• What is an indwelling Urinary Catheter
• Why is it used
• Assessment of Need
• Equipment and Insertion of an Indwelling Urinary Catheter
• Care and Management of the Person with an Indwelling Urinary Catheter
• Prescribed Medication
• Administration and Fluid Irrigation using the Indwelling Urinary
• Catheter
• Associated Risks and Management of Related Emergencies