Clinical Checklist

Standardise your practice with the me+ Intermittent catheterisation consultation checklist

With a standard NHS appointment lasting for 10–15 minutes, and a more specialist consultation lasting from anything from 20 minutes to an hour, there is a lot of ground to cover for both patient and clinician when carrying out a thorough, holistic assessment. This is never more true when discussing intermittent catheterisation with your patients. 

Holistic assessment aims to collect data that is then be documented, to guide care decisions and allow individualised care tailored to the patient’s unique psychosocial, emotional and physical needs (Toney-Butler and Unison-Pace, 2023). There are many benefits arising from taking a systematic approach to evaluation and documentation of findings, all stemming from ensuring that you and your patient cover all the topics relevant to treatment choices at each assessment. These include improved patient safety, consistency in assessment and documentation, improved staff communication and enablement and empowering healthcare professionals to escalate care when needed (Wiseman et al. 2023). In a survey of clinicians working in urology and continence care (BAUN, 2024), 89% of respondents agreed that standardisation had a role in driving consistency in intermittent catheterisation clinics. 

Intermittent Catheterisation Consultation Checklist 

With this in mind, an intermittent catheterisation-consultation checklist was developed by CLP partners, Convatec, in conjunction with a global panel of experts to help to standardise continence assessment. 

The checklist is part of the wider me+ support programme, which is now endorsed by the British Association of Urological Nurses (BAUN). 

Take a look and download for free to see how it can help you to standardise and streamline your consultations can help you to make sure that you cover all the key components of assessment in a systematic way, at each stage of your patient’s journey. 


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References

BAUN (2024) Audience participation survey as part of the symposium Empowering patients and clinicians: incorporating health psychology and clinical principles in Intermittent Catheterisation (IC) for patients and practitioners. BAUN Annual Conference; Monday 4th November 2024.

Toney-Butler TJ, Unison-Pace WJ (2023) Nursing admission assessment and examination. Stats Pearls. National Library of Medicine: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK493211/

Wiseman T, Kourouche S, Jones T, Kennedy B, Curtis K (2023) The impact of whole patient nursing assessment frameworks on hospital inpatients: a scoping literature review. J Adv Nurs 80(9); https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.16025