This World Continence Week, nurses are invited to attend a free webinar to improve their continence care knowledge.
In partnership with Essity, Nursing Times wants to help healthcare professionals boost their confidence in asking patients about their bladder and bowel symptoms and knowing what to do with the response.
This webinar aims to demystify continence and product assessments, ultimately improving outcomes and experiences for individuals. By attending the event, you will:
Learn how to initiate discussions about bladder and bowel symptoms with patients and how to respond to their questions
Discover how to perform effective assessments without complexity and recognise warning signs that require immediate attention
Get guidance on choosing the right continence products for each individual
Speaker: Laura (Poppy) Elsegood, nurse and team lead, North and West Norfolk Continence Service, Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
Speaker: Luisa Parisi, senior brand manager, Essity
Chair: Steve Ford, editor, Nursing Times
Past events suggest that nurses do not always feel comfortable in asking questions around bladder and bowel symptoms due to a lack of confidence in their knowledge base that they will know what to do with the responses.
This event aims to bridge the gap between the specialised assessment that a clinical specialist may do and can feel overwhelming or too complicated for a more general nurse and the perceived alternative of not asking the questions.
We will explore simple questions that can be asked, what the answers may tell us and what advice, support or further referral can be given dependant on those answers, what red flags should we look for and the different aims of care.
We will follow this with information that needs to be gathered to support a good management assessment, primarily focusing on pads – what steps are needed to ensure you get the right product for the individual at the right time.
Throughout we aim to focus on simplifying the process, making it easy to understand to support nurses to translate the skills and knowledge that they have, increase confidence and improve outcomes and experiences for individuals with bladder or bowel problems.
Register now for our free webinar on Tuesday, 17 June 2025 at 2pm. Join us to demystify continence and product assessments. The webinar will also be available to watch back following the event.
World Continence Week 2025 will take place from 16 June to 22 June. The global initiative takes place annually to raise awareness about incontinence and other related pelvic floor issues.
Organised by World Federation of Incontinence and Pelvic Problems (WFIPP), it is designed to promote understanding, reduce stigma and encourage those affected to seek help and treatment.
WFIPP has set the event’s main themes for 2025 as shared decision making, incontinence and mental health, overactive bladder, faecal incontinence, sustainability and menopause.
The awareness week is endorsed by a range of organisations including the International Continence Society and the European Association of Urology, and in the UK by the Association for Continence Professionals.
