Ostoma-Tology: Colostomy, Ileostomy, Urostomy

Contact Hour(s): 

2 Contact Hours

Author:

Maryam Mamou, BSN, RN, CRRN, CWCN, HNB-BC

This peer-reviewed course is applicable for the following professions: 

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), Certified Nurse Midwife, Certified Nurse Practitioner, Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN), Midwife (MW), Nursing Student, Registered Nurse (RN), Registered Nurse Practitioner

Accreditations: 

The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)

Course Description:

This course discusses the health care professional’s role in providing education and care to patients with ostomies.

Outcomes:

≥ 92% of participants will know how to care for a patient with an ostomy.

Objectives:

After completing this continuing education course, the participant will be able to:

1. Determine at least two types of fecal and urinary diversions.
2. Describe the care of the ostomy patient in the immediate post-operative period.
3. Identify the most important educational needs of an ostomy patient in the home setting.
4. Cite the descriptors used to describe an ostomy stoma.
5. List the ostomy supplies a patient with a fecal or urinary diversion will require.
6. Describe the process of ostomy irrigation.
7. Outline some common complications that a patient with an ostomy may experience.
8. Facilitate the patient's return to normal activities after recovery from ostomy surgery.

Disclosures:

CEUFast Inc. and the course planning team for this educational activity do not have any relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.