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Continuing Education

NRS 103
Concepts in Continence Care Clinical Placement

Total Units :
3.0
Course Outlines
Concepts in Continence Care Clinical Placement is an applied professional practice course that focuses on the assessment and management of urinary and fecal incontinence, including the introduction to the educator role in staff and patient care related to incontinence. Students will be individually placed in a variety of health-care settings based in their area of interest including but not limited to urology, urogynecology, acute care, rehabilitation, primary care, community, and long-term care. The students taking this course will focus on understanding the impact of incontinence on patients and care providers: developing assessment skills; identifying factors contributing to incontinence; and utilizing this information to develop management plans to effectively manage incontinence. Elements of health promotion including patient teaching and staff education will be addressed. Students will be assisted in their explorations of transition and integration through the support and deliberate guidance of the professional practice tutor and preceptor(s), with a focus on the following domains of professional practice: connecting care experiences to academic learning; seeing connections and translating these to action across contexts, disciplines, perspectives; engaging in intra- and inter-professional communication, self-assessment, reflective practice, and critical inquiry.

Prerequisite(s)

  • NRS 101 Nursing Cncpts Continence Care
  • NRS 102 Adv Concepts Continence Care

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