Aspire Clinical Education provides practical catheter care training for nurses, carers, support workers and healthcare professionals supporting individuals with urinary catheters in community and home-care settings.

Training is tailored to the needs of the client and care team and may include intermittent catheterisation, suprapubic catheter care, cystostomy button management, and indwelling urethral catheter care.

Sessions are highly practical and designed to ensure staff understand safe catheter care, infection prevention, troubleshooting, and when to escalate concerns.

Duration: 2-3 Hours
Format: Face to Face Practical Training

Catheter Care Training

PRACTICAL CATHETER CARE TRAINING

What The Catheter Care Training Covers

Training content is tailored depending on the needs of the client and care package. The session may include training in one or more of the following:

• Intermittent catheterisation
• Indwelling urethral catheter care
• Suprapubic catheter care
• Nephrostomy
• Cystostomy button management

All sessions include:

Infection prevention and control measures in catheter care
The urinary system anatomy and physiology
What is a catheter
Why does a client need a catheter
Practical: Catheter types
Female and Male considerations (if applicable)
Practical: Drainage of catheters
Consent, capacity and right to refuse

Dignity in catheter care
Urine output monitoring
Maintenance
Considerations, issues and complications
Documentation and escalation
Stoma site and skin care (if applicable)
Sepsis awareness
Roles and responsibilities

Who This Training is Suitable For

Support workers and carers in complex care packages
Registered nurses working in community settings
School or community-based care teams
Healthcare assistants supporting individuals with epilepsy
Case management teams arranging client specific training
CQC Care providers supporting individuals with catheters
Directly employed care teams needing new or annual refresher training
Families supporting relatives with catheters

Understanding Catheter Care

Urinary catheters are commonly used in community and complex care settings to support individuals who are unable to empty their bladder effectively. Nurses and care staff supporting individuals with a catheter must understand safe catheter care, infection prevention, and how to recognise potential complications.

Catheter care training helps ensure healthcare professionals understand the principles of safe urinary catheter management, including monitoring, hygiene, troubleshooting, and escalation when concerns arise.

Understanding the different types of catheters and how they function is essential for providing safe care in community and home-care environments.

Training focuses on both the clinical understanding of urinary catheter care and the practical aspects of day-to-day catheter management, helping nurses and care teams feel confident supporting individuals safely. Catheter care training can also be delivered as part of our client-centred training, allowing sessions to focus on the specific needs, care plans, and techniques required to support individual clients.

Yes. Training is suitable for registered nurses working in community care, complex care packages, and home-care settings.
Yes. Training can be tailored to the care needs and clinical considerations of the individual client. This helps ensure the training is relevant to the care team and reflects the environment in which care is delivered.
Relevant care plans may be requested ahead of the session to support preparation where appropriate.
Training focuses on practical understanding to help learners feel confident performing catheter care.
Training may include intermittent catheterisation, suprapubic catheter care, cystostomy button management, and indwelling urethral catheter care depending on the requirement from the organiser.
Training can be delivered:
• At the care provider’s premises
• Within community settings
• At a suitable venue organised by the provider
Delivery options can be discussed depending on the needs of the organisation and care package.
Yes. Learners attending training receive a certificate of attendance.