Nursing the Incontinent Patient: faculty

The course was written by Gloria Harrison RN, NCA and Derek Griffiths PhD. Gloria Harrison assesses the post tests and provides comments on your answers. The advisory committee for the course also includes Dr Katherine Moore MN, PhD and Linda Organist MSN, CRNP.

Gloria Harrison is a continence care nurse and qualified Nurse Continence Advisor, who over the past 15 years has assessed and helped many hundreds of incontinent people. She has frequently advised health professionals confronted with difficult cases of incontinence, informally and through educational presentations. She has extensive research experience in geriatric and post-prostatectomy incontinence. At present she is not only Nurse Consultant with Griffiths Urodynamics & Pro-Continence Consulting, but is also a Nurse Continence Advisor with the Women's Health Centre at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta. She also performs urodynamic testing for the Women's Health Centre.

Derek Griffiths is a medical scientist who has researched bladder function for over 30 years and has conducted many thousands of urodynamic studies among patients of all ages. In 1992 he and Gloria Harrison established the Northern Alberta Continence Service, a nursing-based, self-referral assessment, management and educational program for people with incontinence. Currently he provides teaching through Griffiths Urodynamics & Pro-Continence Consulting in Edmonton, Alberta, and is also researching geriatric incontinence at the University of Pittsburgh. He is well known in Alberta and internationally for his teaching and research in the field of urinary incontinence. He has taken a leading part in the committees of each of the three International Consultations on Incontinence, which provide the most authoritative guidance for incontinence assessment and management that is available. He is vice-president of The Canadian Continence Foundation.

For information email info@learncontinence.com. or fax (+1) 780-438-2341, or call (+1) 780-438-2341.

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