Efficacy of a urinary incontinence workshop in the formation of the nursing staff in a general hospital
Del Río Sevilla M., Gotor Pérez P., Alarcón Alarcón T., González Montalvo J.I.

SUMMARY

Foundation: To evaluate the nursing personnel’s knowledge (nurses and assistants of nurses) of a general hospital, before and after their participation in theoretical formative workshops and resolution of practical cases on urinary incontinence (UI) in the elderly, imparted by the Geriatric Unit.

Method: We analyzed the anonymous surveys, executed by the nurse personnel, before and after to their attendance to the workshops. The questionnaire consists of 5 articles that pick up aspects related with the prevention, aetiology, diagnosis and treatment of the elderly urinary incontinence (UI).

Results: 175 professionals were trained. A change was observed in the knowledge’s acquired by the nursing personnel, after its participation in the workshops on UI. Previously to the workshop 75 (43%) considered UI normal in elderly in opposition to 7 (4%) later; 135 (77%) didn’t know any type of UI previously against 7 (4%) later; 109 (62%) didn’t can set up the diagnosis of UI against 7 (4%) later; 109 (62%) didn’t know how to identify any type of nurse treatment on UI against 12 (7%) later; 60 (34%) didn’t know how prevent UI, in geriatric patients hospitalised, in opposition to 10 (6%) later to the workshop.

Conclusions: The UI continues being one of the geriatric syndromes unknown in the hospital clinical practice. The formation in this case, imparted by the Geriatric Unit, allows to recognise the UI as a problem of health, to improves meaning the nursing personnel’s knowledge’s, on the measures of prevention in geriatric patients hospitalized, as well as on the procedure to apply to start a nurse diagnosis and treatment, in each clinical type of UI.

KEY WORDS

Urinary incontinence, Geriatric Unit, elderly, formative workshops, personnel’s nursing, geriatric síndromes.

Vol. 14 nº4-2003