title: Basics of ostomy care.
abstract: Teaching the patient how to care for a new ostomy can be a challenging experience for the nurse. The patient with an ostomy needs encouragement, support, and counseling to learn how to integrate self-ostomy care into daily activities. Collaboratively, the WOCN and medical-surgical nurse can provide the patient and his or her family with a more comprehensive approach to ostomy teaching.
authors.affiliation: Wound Ostomy Continence, Robert Wood Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
authors.forename: Vittoria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pontieri-Lewis
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D001458:Bandages; D001828:Body Image; D003376:Counseling / Q000458:organization & administration; D004322:Drainage / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing*; D004766:Enterostomy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000458:organization & administration; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018579:Patient Selection; D019990:Perioperative Care / Q000451:nursing; D012648:Self Care; D017592:Skin Care / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing*; D012944:Social Support; D014547:Urinary Diversion / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology