The professional caregiver is able to assist patients/clients with excretion. This is done autonomously and independently but according to instructions. | The professional caregiver is able to: - involve and support the patient/client and relevant others in excretion,
- accept excretion as a normal part of life,
- accompany patients/clients to the toilet and night commode,
- care for patients/clients who excrete in bed (e.g. incontinent patients/clients),
- provide adequate support for and during excretion (e.g. enable sitting position in bed, explain the use of bed pans and urine bottles),
- assist patients/clients after excretion (e.g. administer intimate body wash, provide incontinence materials) (see also CA.2.1),
- conduct prophylactic measures to prevent constipation (e.g. allow mobility, offer food that promotes excretion),
- quantify urine and defecation,
- clean used materials and discard waste (see also CA.4.1),
- empty catheter and drainage and stoma bags (see also CA.3.4),
- document excretions (see also CA.A.2).
| The professional caregiver is able to: - explain legal regulations and consequences regarding excretion (see also CA.B.3),
- describe the patient’s/client’s needs relating to excretion,
- describe the patient’s/client’s habits and movement possibilities relating to excretion (e.g. needs support to go to the toilet, uses a night commode),
- distinguish different types of excretion,
- name different medical products to assist excretion,
- explain prophylactic measures to prevent constipation,
- explain the meaning of continence and incontinence,
- explain the function of incontinence materials (e.g. nappies, incontinence pads),
- describe values and beliefs of different cultural, ethnological and religious groups and how this may affect patients/clients with regard to excretion (see also CA.B.1 and CA.B.2),
- describe their own behaviour regarding excretion (e.g. understand excretion as a natural condition and allow the need for it)
- explain their own behaviour when emptying catheters and drainage and stoma bags (see also CA.4.1).
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