Paediatric Catheter Skills Day

10th July 2026

Target Audience: Nursing Teams/Community nurses with an interest in Catheter cares

 VenueWard 83 Large Training Room

2nd Floor, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital

(Please use Stem Cell Unit Entrance, turn left and knock on the door)

 Cost£100 per head

Book your place here

Syllabus to be covered (timetable will be sent out once attendees confirmed):

  • Indwelling Catheter Insertion Simulation (competency signed)
  • Indwelling urinary catheter care
  • Troubleshooting indwelling catheters
  • Catheter products and accessories e.g. types of free drainage bags, flip-flo valves
  • Urine sampling from an indwelling urinary catheter
  • Catheter flushing simulation (competency signed)
  • Removal of indwelling urinary catheters
  • Rationale and principles of intermittent catheterisation (CIC/ISC)
  • Intermittent catheterisation simulation (competency signed)
  • School/nursery training process
  • Brief overview of other urological conditions and continence procedures e.g. vesicostomy, Mitrofanoff, bladder augmentation
  • Q&A with clinical nurse specialist in paediatric urology

 

For more information, please email jennifer.powell@mft.nhs.uk

Once your place has been reserved, attendance will be on condition of receipt of payment – click here to access the booking link

You will be issued with theory and simulation competency certificates at the end of the day, and the session will equal 7 hours of CPD. Kidneys For Life will issue an attendance certificate to go towards your revalidation, following completion of a feedback questionnaire.