Bladder and Bowel Management Journal Club
The Journal Club aims to provide you with interesting articles to help support you and your service.
Each newsletter will include a full reference and a brief description of the article. If you do not have an account to search and download these articles, contact your hospital or trust library and they will be able to support you in obtaining them.
You’ll also have suggestions on how you can use each article for reflection in case you want use this as part of your revalidation – either as CPD time or a written reflection.
In these ever-changing times it is important to remember the fundamentals of what we do, all articles make interesting and thought-provoking reading.
Journal Club - Edition 7 - April 2022
April 2022
-‘We tend to get pad happy’: a qualitative study of health practitioners’ perspectives on the quality of continence care for older people in hospital
-The effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction on the urinary microbiome in interstitial cystitis
-Transanal irrigation bowel routine for people with Cauda Equina Syndrome
- Functional independence measure predicts the outcome of clean intermittent catheterization training in patients with multiple sclerosis
Journal Club - Edition 6
February 2022
-Autonomic dysreflexia in spinal cord injury’
-Podcasting in nursing and midwifery education: An integrative review
-The urobiome, urinary tract infections, and the need for alternative therapeutics
-Women with chronic constipation have more bothersome urogenital symptoms’
Previous Editions
Journal Club - Edition 1 - May 2021
Journal Club- Edition 1- May 2021
May 2021
- Taking care of continence patients during the COVID-19 pandemic
-Anxiety Levels and Sexual Functions of Patients Performing Clean Intermittent Catheterization Sexuality and Disability
-Recommendations for evaluation of neurogenic bladder and bowel dysfunction after spinal cord injury and/or disease, The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine
- Chronic constipation: building pathways for better bowel management. British Journal of Healthcare Management.
Journal Club - Edition 2 - June 2021
June 2021
Journal Club - Edition 2 (coloplastprofessional.co.uk)
-Neurogenic Bowel Dysfunction in Children and Adolescents.
-Burdens and educational needs of informal caregivers of older adults with urinary incontinence: An internet-based study.
-Pulse article: survey of neurogenic bladder management in spinalcord injury patients around the world
-Faecal incontinence: a healthcare taboo
Journal Club - Edition 3 - July 2021
July 2021
Journal Club - Edition 3 (coloplastprofessional.co.uk)
- Why not choose intermittent self-catheterisation?
-Long-term rates of bladder dysfunction after decompression in patients with cauda equina syndrome
-Adherence to transanal irrigation in older adults: first-year assessment
- Problems people with spinal cord injury experience accessing help with bowel care when hospitalised outside a specialist spinal injury service
Journal Club- Edition 4- October 2021
Journal Club - Edition 4 (coloplastprofessional.co.uk)
October 2021
-A qualitative assessment of psychosocial aspects that play a role in bladder management after spinal cord injury
-Supporting ostomy and continence care teams
-Constipation should be managed
-How the nursing profession should adapt for a digital future
Journal Club - Edition 5 - December 2021
Journal Club - Edition 5 - December (coloplastprofessional.co.uk)
December 2021
- Urinary catheter management: what neurologists need to know
-Demystifying consultant nurse roles in gastrointestinal nursing: what they do and how to become one
-The impact of chronic constipation in adults
- Antibiotic stewardship for urinary tract infection: A program evaluation
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