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Catheter Care Awareness
Clinical & Physical Care SkillsLevel 1

Catheter Care Awareness

Catheter support is often intimate care , and quality depends on doing the basics consistently: protecting privacy and dignity, maintaining a safe catheter system, reducing infection risk, recognizing complications early, and escalating promptly when something changes. These expectations align directly with the regulator’s standards for dignity, consent, safe care, and governance.

1 hour 10 minutes
Created by Sophie Barber Updated 10/2026 English
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What you'll learn

Explain common reasons a person may use a urinary catheter.
Identify and differentiate catheter types used in community and social care contexts: intermittent, indwelling urethral, suprapubic, and external catheter options.
Describe the impact catheter use can have on daily life, dignity, comfort, mobility, sleep, relationships, and social participation, and how support needs may change over time.
Apply core catheter-care principles in routine support: maintain a closed system, avoid unnecessary disconnections, prevent kinks/traction, position drainage correctly, support hygiene routines, and reduce contamination risks during bag emptying.

Course content

5 modules

Understand your role and responsibilities when supporting someone with a urinary catheter. This module covers consent, dignity, privacy, delegated healthcare activities, competence, professional boundaries and when to stop and escalate.
Explore why catheters are used, the main catheter types and how each may affect daily routines. Learners will consider mobility, confidence, privacy, relationships, independence and how to provide sensitive, person-centred support.
Learn the essential daily practices that support safe catheter care. Topics include maintaining a closed drainage system, correct bag positioning, hand hygiene, safe emptying, reducing infection risk and working within the person’s care plan.
Recognise common catheter complications such as blockage, leakage, infection symptoms, spasms and bleeding. Learners will practise safe checks within their role, identify urgent warning signs, escalate appropriately and document concerns clearly.
Complete a final assessment covering consent, catheter types, infection prevention, safe system maintenance, scope of practice, escalation and documentation. Questions focus on applying knowledge to realistic catheter-care situations.

Specialist

Sophie Barber

A qualified teacher, examiner and content creator, Sophie has over 10 years experience developing resources for examination boards to ensure that they are using effective learning tools. An ex-medic, Sophie has a huge passion for the healthcare profession and the importance of delivering quality care.

Training you can trust

How this course works. You will work through self-paced modules, check your understanding with knowledge checks, and finish with a short assessment. On passing, your CPD-certified certificate is available to download immediately, ready for your CQC evidence file or employer records.

Recommended renewal: every year. Your certificate is valid for 12 months. Skills for Care's minimum for most topics is every 3 years. Refresher periods by topic

Accredited by CPD

All of our courses are accredited by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to universally accepted Continuing Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

Frequently asked questions

There is no deadline: a one-off purchase gives you lifetime access to the course, including updates, so you can complete it at your own pace across shifts.
Yes. Every course is accredited by the CPD Certification Service, and the certificate states the course, the level and the date you passed.
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Your certificate is generated the moment you pass the final assessment, ready to download or print.