Assignment task: Emptying an Ostomy (answer 2 with brief responses)
Q1. How do you accurately measure effluent output?
Q2. What nursing interventions can you take for a patient with difficulty coping and impaired body image after having a colostomy?
Q3. What factors into output? When to change and empty based on time?
Q4. Pt is having significant watery output, what dietary teaching would you do?
Q5. Your patient is having significant gas, what nursing intervention could you take?