We work with individuals and families to free them from the social isolation and shame of incontinence:
 

• We enable people to feel confident that they can have  intimate relationships without the fear of incontinence
   
• We assist people to remain living in their own home
   
• We give people back their dignity and self-respect
   
• We believe managing incontinence is the ultimate health intervention
   
• We give people back their CHOICE and CONTROL

 

 Continence First achieve results because we:

• Conduct comprehensive bladder and bowel assessments
• Implement appropriate bladder and bowel management programs
• Write detailed continence reports
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the continence management program
• Organise product sampling and product selection
• Write and submit applications for the Continence Aids Payment Scheme (CAPS)and state-based continence funding programs
• Catheter management programs
• Bowel management programs

 Continence First work with:

• Men, women and children of all ages
• People with additional needs and/or complex needs
• People with behaviours of concern affecting their toileting independence

'Continence First deliver continence education to:

• Health professional groups
• Mainstream and special development school staff
• Residential aged care and community residential accommodation support staff
• Keynote speaker presentations

 

Continence Assessment and Management Services

Continence First @ Nurses Know How is the culmination of 30 years experience working as a passionate Nurse Continence Specialist (NCS) across a myriad of health care settings. During my NCS career, my commitment to providing best practice continence nursing assessments and management programs has intensified.

 

I have witnessed the powerful impact these strategies have had to enable clients and their families to heal well and stay well and remain living within their chosen community.

 

Qualifications and Current Appointments:

• BApp Sc (Nursing), RN, Nurse Continence Specialist
• GradDipBsMn, Cert IV TAE
• President Continence Nurses Society Australia Victoria /Tasmania 
(CoNSA VicTas)
• Committee member -Continence Nurses Society Australia (CoNSA National)

 

LISA WRAGG: FOUNDER AND NURSE


 

CONTINENCE FIRST @ NURSES KNOW HOW

DON'T "JUST PAD PEOPLE UP"

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