Fundamentals of Stoma Care Training
📅 Duration: 3 hours (half-day)
👩⚕️ Audience: Nurses, HCAs, carers, support workers and healthcare professionals supporting individuals with stomas
🏥 Format: Face-to-face at your organisation
👥 Group Size: Up to 10 delegates
Colostomy and Ileostomy Care Training for Healthcare Staff
Course Details:
Living with a stoma can have a significant impact on a person’s daily life, confidence and wellbeing. This course gives learners a practical understanding of stoma care, including different stoma types, appliance management, measuring and fitting bags, recognising complications and maintaining healthy peristomal skin.
The session also highlights the importance of providing compassionate, dignified and person-centred care. Poor stoma management can lead to leakage, skin damage, infection, discomfort and avoidable complications, making safe, evidence-based training essential for healthcare and care staff supporting people with stomas.
Around 21,000 people undergo stoma surgery in the UK each year, with many requiring ongoing support from healthcare and care professionals following discharge.
Learning Outcomes – Stoma Management for Healthcare Staff
By the end of this CPD-accredited course, participants will be able to:
- Recognise the key features of anatomy and physiology and understand how normal bowel and urinary function are affected by stoma formation.
- Understand the indications for stoma formation, including common gastrointestinal, urinary and surgical conditions requiring a stoma.
- Identify the different types of stoma, including colostomy, ileostomy and urostomy, and understand their implications for patient care and daily living.
- Demonstrate knowledge of measuring a stoma safely and accurately using appropriate tools and techniques to support effective appliance fitting.
- Recognise the range of stoma appliances available and understand how to apply and manage them safely to maintain comfort, dignity and skin integrity.
- Identify key care considerations in stoma management, including appliance changing, emptying, skin care and managing common day-to-day problems.
- Recognise common stoma complications and understand when concerns require escalation or referral to the stoma care team.
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Why Choose Hickby?
👩⚕️ Nurse-led expertise
Delivered by experienced Clinical Nurse Educators with current clinical insight.
🎓 CPD accredited
Training mapped to national professional and clinical standards.
📖 Evidence-based
Aligned with national guidance to support safe, effective emergency care.
“Really practical and easy to follow. The session made stoma care feel much less daunting and helped build my confidence in supporting patients safely and respectfully.”
Senior HCSW
Residential Care
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