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Description

Supported by Hollister Incorporated

WOC nurses are best positioned to make positive impacts to the lives of the patients they care for. Unfortunately, people living with a stoma who experience leakage and peristomal skin complications have a decreased quality of life. Surgeons, WOC nurses, and home care nurses have the responsibility to be PROACTIVE in their practice and consider products designed to provide security with a pouching system to support healthy peristomal skin.
This panel discussion symposium, led by a moderator, will discuss the use of soft convexity earlier in a patient’s journey with the health care team who strive to achieve positive outcomes and set their patient’s up for success from the start.

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Learning Outcome

• Describe the evidence supporting the use of convexity post operatively
• Dispel the myth of avoiding convexity in the post-operative period
• Consider a change of practice to support positive outcomes for the patient earlier in the patient’s journey
• Understand the impact the WOC nurse has on a patient’s quality of life