Continence Services

Contact Information

  • Phone: 9346 8026
  • Fax: 9346 8215

Nurse Continence Advisor

We offer continence services to children and adults through a nurse continence advisor based on OPH campus and employed by North Metropolitan Area Health Service Population Health and Ambulatory Care.

For children with enuresis and encopresis
We use the same model of treatment as with Princess Margaret Hospital. Please see more information on bedwetting.

We require the following information as outlined in the Bedwetting Referral form. We welcome referrals from you and have 3 versions of referral templates available for your use:

There is a small cost for the hire of the alarm.

For adults with bladder or bowel continence issues
We require the following information:

  • patient demographic data - name, address, telephone
  • clinical information - brief medical history, medications.

A limited home visiting service is also available for patients with access issues.

We also visit Joondalup Health Campus.

Referrals can be faxed to 9346 8215. To speak with the nurse continence advisor please call 9346 8026.

Bedwetting

About bedwetting:

  • It is a common problem that can usually be stopped
  • It is not due to laziness, naughtiness or heavy sleeping. It is an unconscious phenomenon, with the child going to bed and waking up wet with no recollection of it happening.
  • Punishment and fluid restriction will not help
  • "Lifting" during the night will not help achieve bladder control
  • There is usually a family history of bedwetting
  • Help should be sought at 5 1/2 yrs of age upwards or in the first year of school. Some children do not grow out of it.
  • While bladder or kidney disease is an unlikely cause exclusion of these problems is worthwhile.
  • The bedwetting clinic at OPH uses a similar self-management programme to that used at Princess Margaret Hospital. This has a high likelihood of a successful outcome.

Instructions for importing into the Medical Director software

In Medical Director, open Letter Writer, open Blank Template, select Import to import this document, select Save As to save this template, use the template by selecting it when you create a New Letter.

Instructions for importing into other software

We welcome use of this form or your own computer generated version. In view of the number of different software products available we are unable to provide specific templates for each product. However you may use the Word version to import the document into your own medical software. You will need to create the automated fields such as patient and doctor details.

Last modified: 26th July 2007.