Adult Nursing: Ostomy Nursing

Ostomy patients need knowledgeable and supportive nursing care to help them adjust to life with a stoma. With our one-on-one care and attention, patients receive the help they need to live comfortably at home. A Certified Enterostomal Therapist is available for consultation visits.

Program Goals

• Educating patients and families in ostomy care
• Increasing patient independence, satisfaction and well-being
• Decreasing length of service and complications

Commonly Treated Conditions

• Colostomy
• Ileostomy
• Urine diversions
• Fistula
• Gastrostomy tubes
• Continent diversions

Ostomy Nursing Services

• Assessment of the patient’s status
• Pre-operative education and stoma site selection and marking
• Post-operative instruction for the patient and caregiver on ostomy care
• Fitting of an appropriate ostomy appliance for normal and complex ostomies
• Treatment of peristomal skin breakdown
• Dietary counseling and sexual adjustment support

Our Service Area

Montgomery, Prince George's, St. Mary's, Charles and Calvert counties of Maryland.