This course introduces caregivers to healthy bowel and urinary functioning and the important role they play in supporting client comfort, dignity, and overall health. Learners will explore common toileting needs and challenges while recognizing the emotional impact that needing assistance with elimination can have on clients. 

The course emphasizes respectful, person-centered approaches that promote privacy, independence, and dignity.

Caregivers will learn about normal bowel and urinary function, common elimination concerns, and strategies for identifying and responding to changes in a client’s condition. The course also reviews safe toileting assistance practices and ways to support client hygiene, comfort, and well-being.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe normal bowel and urinary functioning.

2. Identify common bowel and urinary problems and related signs and symptoms.

3. Recognize the caregiver’s role in supporting toileting and elimination needs.

4. Demonstrate respectful and person-centered approaches to toileting assistance.

5. Identify strategies to promote client comfort, hygiene, dignity, and independence.

6. Recognize changes in elimination patterns that should be reported.