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High Intensity module

Complex Bowel Support: Elimination

Assisting individuals requiring complex bowel care, including the safe use of enemas and suppositories: bowel anatomy, constipation management, administration procedures and documentation.

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About 40 minutes · 7 short lessons · quiz at the end

By the end, you will be able to

  • Explain how the bowel works and what healthy bowel function looks like.
  • Recognise the signs, symptoms and causes of constipation.
  • Identify what must be reported, seen by a Doctor or treated as an emergency.
  • Support the diet, fluid, exercise and toilet habits that prevent constipation.
  • Describe how an enema or suppository is given safely, when it must not be given, and how bowel function is recorded.

Each lesson has a short activity. They are practice only and are not recorded. The quiz at the end is marked, and you need 80% to pass. You can stop at any time and pick up where you left off on this device.