Urostomy wafer change

This is how I change my urostomy wafer. It's medical in nature, and may be considered by some people to be fairly graphic.
I'm posting it cause I remember how hard it was when I first received my urostomy, and maybe there will be a suggestion or two that you'll find helpful.

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Howto & Style

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• urostomy
• iliostomy
• ostomy
• wafer
• stoma

[1armine]

Thank you. This was very helpful. My father might get urostomy soon and it is a good idea to see exactly what that is.

[dfazackle]

Hi I have a colostomy at present & they are talking about doing a Urostomy so listening to you changing your bag was very interesting. Best wishes

[233911969]

Thank you so much. Heading for my first urostomy pt in home care tomorrow but now I know I will be stopping to by Tampax !

[gotshirts]

thank you very much for posting this.

[rexyrn]

Love it! I have been a nurse for 28 years and will be posting this for our staff to watch so that they understand how to do this better and also suggest it to our pts for them to become more confortable.

[pennyh53]

Hello! Thank you for this great video.. My daughter's husband is just home from the hospital.  We live across the country from them . They are really struggling tonight with leakage, etc. I am an RN, but cannot much help to her this far away. I just emailed you to her in the hopes that your willingness to share your expertise will be of assistance to them. Many Blessings,

Penny Hummel

[kmissfarm]

Thank you so much for this wonderful video. I'm a nursing student and it is so overwhelming to have to teach care to a patient when you have never really seen it before yourself. I have a patient who is post operative for this tomorrow and this was just awesome. All the best to you, thanks :)

[scoot0415]

Ron, Thank you so much for the informative video! You take such great care of your urostomy. I am in nursing school and found this very helpful for caring for my patients in clinical. You presented it very well. Best of luck to you :)

[Applebotum3089]

Thanks for a video that shows real life techniques to cope with the results of this procedure. I am a scrub tech who has done hundreds of diversion procedures & am now in nursing school & it was so helpful to see things from a long term post-op view particularly the patients quality of life. Thanks again!

[bryannemeczek]

The first couple months was hardest, getting used to having an ostomy and the mechanics of changing it. Also, right after my surgery, the surgical incision created lots of fluid as it was healing, which made it difficult for the wafer to adhere to the skin. Most of my initial problems were temporary and went away with time and experience.