Online Course
Bladder and Bowel Considerations with Spinal Cord Injury
Gain a comprehensive understanding of bladder and bowel care post-spinal cord injury

1.5-2 hours

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Wendy Oelofse
Course instructor

Wendy Oelofse is an occupational therapist with a passion for spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

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Learning, Acting and Building for Rehabilitation in Health Systems

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Introduction

Spinal cord injury can cause a complete or partial loss of voluntary bladder and bowel control. Complications associated with a neurogenic bladder include incontinence, urinary tract infection, urinary stones, renal impairment, skin breakdown and more. Some of the complications associated with bowel dysfunction after spinal cord injury include constipation, obstructive defecation, and faecal incontinence. The medical and social consequences of these conditions can significantly impact a person's social activities and quality of life.

Appropriate management of bladder and bowel dysfunction following spinal cord injury is, therefore, essential. However, there is no single approach to bladder and bowel care that works for everyone. An individualised bladder and bowel programme needs to be designed for each patient with spinal cord injury. This course explores the components of these bladder and bowel programmes.

Aims

This course aims to provide foundational knowledge on effective management strategies for the neurogenic bladder and bowel post-spinal cord injury.

Outline

This course is made up of videos, reading, forum posts and a final quiz. The course content is split into the following sections:

  1. Video
  2. Reading activity
  3. Quiz

Target audience

This course is aimed at rehabilitation professionals, students and assistants including but not limited to Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Rehabilitation Doctors, Rehabilitation Nurses, Prosthetists, Orthotists, Psychologists, Audiologists, Dietetics, Social Workers. Community Health Workers, Nurses or Medical Doctors interested in this subject are also invited to participate.

Practicalities

  • Availability - this course is online and can be completed on your own schedule.
  • Hours of Learning - No deadlines are applied to this course and it can be started and completed in your own time according to your personal schedule. We expect the required elements to take around 1.5-2 hours depending on your schedule and learning style. Additionally there are many optional resources provided and if you choose to review these the course could take longer to complete.
  • Types of Activities - Watching videos, reading, a final quiz and participating in an international discussion forum.
  • Certificates - At the end of the course, when you have completed all of the required elements, you will be able to download a certificate of completion and 1.6 Plus points will be added to your personalised learning dashboard.

Requirements to complete this course

In order to complete this course and receive a course completion certificate plus CEUs/CCUs/CPD points you will need to:

  1. Respect the Plus Community Culture.
  2. Log all the required learning activities as complete (represented by the orange icons!).
  3. Actively and appropriately participate in the course discussions.
  4. Pass a final quiz with a score of 80% or more.
  5. Complete a course evaluation form.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course you will be able to:

  • differentiate between the main features of spastic and flaccid bladder and bowel in individuals with spinal cord injury
  • describe the main goals of bladder and bowel management for individuals with spinal cord injury and at least four management strategies for the neurogenic bladder and bowel
  • recognise at least three complications associated with neurogenic bladder and bowel in individuals with spinal cord injury

Instructor financial and non-financial disclosures

Wendy Oelofse: No relevant relationships disclosed by instructor.

Accessibility

For special needs or accommodations please contact us with details of how we can meet your needs.

Featured reviews
This course provided me with lots of helpful information, which I could use to understand patients' problems with bladder and bowel incontinence better. It will also significantly help me teach topics to my students.
Deepak Joshi
Physiotherapist
Nepal