OVERVIEW

Restructuring Healthcare Delivery to Meet the Outpatient Ostomy Patient Needs: Strategies for Success is organized by Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN)

Release Date: January 30, 2019
Expiration Date: January 30, 2022

Target Audience:
RN, Nurse Practitioners, Health Care Professionals who work with WOC patients.

Credits:
0.32 - Contact Hours

To Receive Credit:
• Complete the activity in its entirety.
• Complete/submit the evaluation.
• Print out your certificate and/or save to your computer. It will also be saved to your CEC account.

Program Overview:
Post-operative complications occur in 71% of ileostomy and 43% of colostomy patients. Providing outpatient ostomy clinic services is essential in monitoring and resolving these complications. An outpatient clinic allows the WOC nurse to continue patient education, provide regular assessments and interventions, address stoma-related problems, and avoid hospital re-admissions rates. Improving patient access to the outpatient ostomy clinic in collaboration with surgical physician services, to enhance patient outcomes, decrease readmission rates and improve patient satisfaction.

This session explores the process that WVU Medicine went through to set up such a clinic, and will provide the viewer with tangible outcomes data.

Learning Outcomes:
Through this program, the learner will acquire the necessary information to formulate a plan for establishment of an outpatient ostomy clinic.

Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.