Nurse Catheter Care at Home
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Nurse Catheter Care at Home Service Details
Catheterization is a medical procedure where a catheter tube is introduced into your bladder so as to allow for the urine to drain out. The Doctor will recommend this procedure when a person cannot control their urine, lacks in urinary outport or when the bladder retains urine.
Medelit offers a high standard Nurse Catheter Care service at Home in London and surroundings areas, which includes the placement, replacement and removal, following all the safety procedures.
Our nurses are trained, registered and specialised in supporting you in the best of ways, with the goal of allowing you to live as independently as possible in your own home, but with the reassurance of receiving highly skilled and comprehensive care as you would in a hospital or clinic. Our nurses are knowledgeable about many different kinds of catheters including standard catheters, Supra-pubic catheters and indwelling foley catheters.
The service we provide includes changing the catheter, avoiding complications and discomfort, infection prevention, bladder retraining, and educating patients and their families or caregivers regarding proper care and maintenance.
Our nurse continence support services are aimed at helping people manage bladder problems as effectively as possible. Our registered nurses provide comprehensive catheter care inclusive of an initial assessment to determine the bladder care needs of you or your loved one and tailored continence support and training plans.
Booking
Our home nursing catheter care service is available 365 days a year, including weekends and bank holidays and you can easily book a home visit every day by clicking the button below. Visits can be arranged when it is most convenient for you. For regular care, we can plan a regular schedule or organise visits one at a time, according to your needs.
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Nurse Catheter Care at Home
About our Visiting Nurses
All our Nurses and Carers are:
- Fully Trained and Registered
- Board Certified
- Vetted with a full background check, reference check and interview with our managing Doctors
- Selected for their highest levels of experience, specialisation and qualifications
- Able to advise on leakages, sore skin, diet, different products available, hydration and more
- Caring, discreet and respectful
- Able to provide information on your situation and educate you and your family
Areas Covered by our Nurse Catheter Care at Home Service
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About Nurse Catheter Care at Home
Once the catheter has been positioned, it is important to manage it properly, so as to prevent complications and urinary tract infections. For this purpose, it is necessary to provide careful daily hygiene of the patient’s genital areas.
Medelit’s home catheter service provides more than mere positioning or replacement of your catheter. It includes the training on catheter management for you and/or those who help take care of you on a daily basis, so as to provide you as much independence as possible, while ensuring you are safe. Our nurses will make sure that the catheter is working properly and will discuss any issues such as discomfort and leakage
Who Needs Catheterization?
Catheterization becomes a medical solution for those who are unable to pass urine (urinary retention) or have problems fully emptying their bladder. Moreover, it is prescribed when the urethra is blocked or when persistent incontinence is causing skin damage and other treatments have not been successful in solving the problem.
A home catheter service is particularly important for bedridden individuals, who are unable to get out of their bed due to surgery, age-related degeneration, spinal cord injuries, or other impairing medical conditions that have reduced a person’s mobility. However, any person needing catherization, even if only temporary, will benefit from not having to move from the privacy, safety and comfort of their home to receive catheter care.
FAQs on Nurse Catheter Care
Positioning a urinary catheter can be uncomfortable, so anaesthetic gel may be used on the area to reduce any pain. At the beginning, you may also experience some discomfort while the catheter is in place, but most people with a long-term catheter get used to this over time.
How long a urinary catheter can be left in place depends on each person’s individual situation and the reasons for which the catheter itself is being positioned. Catheters can be temporary or permanent, usually they stay in place between 2 and 12 weeks. However, your doctor will provide you with all the information.
After the catheter tube is inserted into the urethra and up into the bladder, a balloon is inflated in the bladder to anchor it. If the catheter is pulled out accidentally while the ballon is inflated, for example by a disoriented patient, this can result in the catheter blocking and/or not working any more, or even in the onset of complications such as a bladder or urethra injury and blood loss. If you think your catheter might be misplaced or might have been damaged, you should call for a nurse to replace the catheter and warn your doctor.
There are several risks associated to improper catheter care. You may experience bladder spasms, blood in your urine, infections which can result in long term damage if not appropriately treated. However, you can reduce the risk of complications by receiving help from a professional who will be able to support you both in providing catheter care directly and in teaching you or your family caregiver how to correctly manage your catheter on a daily basis.
Your Foley catheter will be removed when your doctor decides you no longer need it. In some cases, antibiotics may be given before catheter removal, so as to prevent bacterial infections. You may be able to remove your catheter directly, but it is always safer to have this done by a professional.
The nurse will insert a syringe into the balloon port of the catheter so as to empty the balloon holding the catheter in place. After the balloon is emptied, you will be asked to take a deep breath and then exhale. As you exhale, your pelvic floor muscles will relax and the nurse will gently pull on the catheter to remove it. You may feel a brief moment of discomfort as the catheter slides out through your urethra.
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