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Management of Fecal Incontinence for the Advanced Practice Nurse

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This chapter explains the concepts of advanced practice nursing and advanced practice continence nursing. It describes advanced practice nursing and advanced practice continence nursing practice in four countries. It distinguishes between specialist and advanced nursing practice, introduces the reader to the global development of continence nursing as a specialization, describes the role profile of the nurse continence specialist, and proposes a set of competences and education from basic to advanced practice continence nursing care. This chapter includes information about the advanced practice approach to continence care for people with fecal incontinence and concludes with research about the effectiveness of nurses with advanced practice skills in continence care for people with fecal incontinence.

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  1. School of Nursing and Midwifery, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, Australia

    Joan Ostaszkiewicz

  2. University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Cynthia Peden-McAlpine & Donna Z. Bliss

  3. Saint Elizabeth Health Care, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Melissa Northwood

  4. Aging, Community and Health Research Unit, School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, USA

    Melissa Northwood

  5. Cornwall Foundation Trust, Cornwall, UK

    Sharon Eustice

  6. Japan Continence Action Society, Tokyo, Japan

    Kaoru Nishimura

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Ostaszkiewicz, J., Peden-McAlpine, C., Northwood, M., Eustice, S., Bliss, D.Z., Nishimura, K. (2018). Advanced Practice Continence Nursing. In: Bliss, D. (eds) Management of Fecal Incontinence for the Advanced Practice Nurse. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90704-8_2

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