Dr Alyson Sweeney RN has researched and written the following guideline:
Best practice guideline: long-term suprapubic catheter related care at home
Clinical guidelines
The following links are to evidence based clinical guidelines which may be relevant to the clinical practice of the Nurse Continence Specialist.
Best practice guideline: long-term suprapubic catheter related care at home
Royal Children's Hospital
The Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne has produced clinical practice guidelines relevant to continence. These include:
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) provides national (UK) guidance and advice to improve health and social care.
They have many evidenced-based, continence related, guidance, quality standards, care pathways, policies and procedures.
CoNSA
CoNSA has produced the following guideline:
Continence Nurses Society of Australia. (2017). Update on single vs reuse of urinary catheter drainage bags and catheters for intermittent catheterisation. Melbourne: CoNSA
ICS Standards
The International Continence Society has developed core terminology documents, consensus documents and International Consultation on Incontinence algorithms.
European Association of Urological Nurses
EAUN has produced the following clinical guidelines:
- Catheterisation - Indwelling catheters in adults – Urethral & Suprapubic
- Catherisation – Urethral intermittent in adults
- Male external catheters in adults – urinary catheter management