Measures to Promote Emptying of Urinary Bladder

Patient/caregiver was provided instructions regarding measures to promote bladder emptying as follows: During voiding make sure you are seated comfortably on the toilet with feet rested properly on the ground. Allow privacy for yourself, which can enhance your comfort and ease of voiding. Relax while passing urine. This helps with maintaining flow of urine, which contributes towards improved emptying of bladder. If the flow of urine stops before the bladder is completely emptied, you can [...]

How to Educate or Practice Double Voiding

Patient/caregiver was provided instructions to practice double voiding as follows: Double voiding is a pattern bladder training to help individuals with difficulty emptying the bladder completely. This technique allows an individual some extra time for the restroom trip to allow the bladder empty completely. Double voiding involves attempting to pass urine more than once each time the toilet was used. During voiding make sure you are seated comfortably on the toilet with feet rested properly [...]

Nurse Teaching on Advantages of Double Voiding

Patient/caregiver was instructed regarding advantages of double voiding as follows: Double voiding is a pattern bladder training to help individuals with difficulty emptying the bladder completely. This technique allows an individual some extra time for the act of voiding and empty the bladder completely. By encouraging to empty the bladder completely, double voiding helps prevent any back-up of urine in the bladder and thus helps men with prostate enlargement. As the bladder is emptied more [...]

What is Double Voiding

Patient/caregiver was instructed regarding double voiding as follows: Double voiding is a pattern of bladder training to help individuals with difficulty emptying the bladder completely. Obese individuals, women with history of multiple pregnancies, and individuals with history of lifting heavy weights can have poor pelvic muscle strength. Poor tone of pelvic muscles can result in incomplete emptying of bladder, urinary dribbling, incontinence, and frequent urge to urinate. Double voiding helps to address these urinary problems [...]

How to Educate or Practice Timed Voiding

Patient/caregiver was provided instructions to practice timed voiding as follows: The goal of timed voiding The goal of timed voiding is to cut down the frequency of urinary incontinence episodes and prevent back-up of urine in the bladder. This can help planning the voiding times ahead and urinate frequently, so that we do not hold more urine in the bladder and precipitate episodes of incontinence and urine leakage. Caregiver was instructed upon encouraging the patient [...]