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Hello, I have a great Wound to the Wise. So this is a hospital basin, right? And it's a very useful thing for the ostomy patient, because let's say you don't have any teaching equipment, and it's four in the morning, and your patient (asks), "How do I put this pouch on my two-piece system?" So, very easy, we take the bottom of the basin and we actually put our barrier down and then we can actually put our pouch on and off.
So, usually when I'm teaching our patient, especially somebody who has not had an enhanced recovery program, is we say, okay, you don't have to look at your stoma right now, but let's have you just practice putting on the pouch, taking off the pouch, putting on the pouch, taking off the pouch, or if they are not ready for that, you can put this on and then say, "We're going to work on having you drain your pouch and empty your pouch," and they don't have to do it on themselves. So, there's no pressure, they don't have to be afraid they're going to leak and so they can just practice back and forth emptying their pouch. And so they learn muscle memory this way, and then they've had done this enough and we give them little bits at a time. Okay, the first thing we're going to do is have you pretend you're going to empty your pouch and close your pouch, empty your pouch, close your pouch, because that is the skill that a home health nurse is not going to come out and do. And even tell them you're going to empty your pouch when it's one-third to one-half full. So once they do that, then they can actually, if they have a two-piece system, start putting on the wafer on the pouch onto the skin barrier, on, off, on, off, and then they can start moving those skills to their own belly, just like that.
And that's my Wound to the Wise.
