Course information

This module contains the topics:

• About stomas
• Care and management
• Complications
• Stoma reversal

By the end of this module, you should be able to: 

• summarise the purpose of creating a stoma
• recall the three types of stomas
• describe the preoperative care for a patient receiving a stoma
• describe stoma care and skin care following surgery
• recall the healthy appearance of a stoma
• describe complications of stoma creation and a patient living with a stoma
• name complications of stomas which require referral
• indicate when a stoma is reversible
• describe strategies to promote successful stoma reversal.