2025
Stomatherapy: Self-care Training
Name: Stomatherapy: Self-care Training
Code: ENF16160O
3 ECTS
Duration: 2 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Nursing
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Acquire knowledge and develop assessment and intervention skills for people with stomas and their families for self-care.
- Recognises the importance of a trusting relationship with the patient and family, promoting a safe environment for sharing emotions and difficulties.
- Identifies the need for interaction, information, teaching and training to empower the patient/family for self-care.
- Assess the stoma and peristomal skin, identifying possible complications and planning interventions to prevent them.
- Plan specialised nursing care, including the appropriate selection of devices and accessories (bags, plates, etc.) to ensure fit and comfort for the user.
- Makes decisions about the prevention and treatment of complications: skin irritation, hernia or bleeding.
- Develops individual care plans based on simulation cases.
- Recognises the importance of a trusting relationship with the patient and family, promoting a safe environment for sharing emotions and difficulties.
- Identifies the need for interaction, information, teaching and training to empower the patient/family for self-care.
- Assess the stoma and peristomal skin, identifying possible complications and planning interventions to prevent them.
- Plan specialised nursing care, including the appropriate selection of devices and accessories (bags, plates, etc.) to ensure fit and comfort for the user.
- Makes decisions about the prevention and treatment of complications: skin irritation, hernia or bleeding.
- Develops individual care plans based on simulation cases.
Contents
Module I
- Concept of Nursing Practice in Stoma Therapy
- Legal, ethical and deontological aspects of Stoma Therapy
- Personal and professional training and development
- Concepts in Stoma Therapy
- Care for people with feeding stomas
- Care for people with intestinal ostomies
- Care for people with urinary ostomies
- Care for people with respiratory ostomies
Module II
- Management of complications in stoma therapy
- Materials and accessories in stoma therapy
- Safe transition in the process of adapting to life with an ostomy
- Information, Communication and Management System
Module III
Discussion of clinical cases; interaction and communication training
Simulation training (trainees are divided into three groups)
? Organising a Stoma Therapy Consultation
? Ostomy Care Management
? Presentation of ostomy materials and accessories
? Empowering patients for self-care
? Management of infectious and mechanical complications
- Concept of Nursing Practice in Stoma Therapy
- Legal, ethical and deontological aspects of Stoma Therapy
- Personal and professional training and development
- Concepts in Stoma Therapy
- Care for people with feeding stomas
- Care for people with intestinal ostomies
- Care for people with urinary ostomies
- Care for people with respiratory ostomies
Module II
- Management of complications in stoma therapy
- Materials and accessories in stoma therapy
- Safe transition in the process of adapting to life with an ostomy
- Information, Communication and Management System
Module III
Discussion of clinical cases; interaction and communication training
Simulation training (trainees are divided into three groups)
? Organising a Stoma Therapy Consultation
? Ostomy Care Management
? Presentation of ostomy materials and accessories
? Empowering patients for self-care
? Management of infectious and mechanical complications
Teaching Methods
Case-based methodology for discussion and reflection. Case-based learning (CBL)
Clinical simulation with anatomical models (stoma care)
Life narratives.
Clinical simulation with anatomical models (stoma care)
Life narratives.
Assessment
- Practical presentation of a teaching plan (written work and group discussion) - CBL - with grading (0-20). Minimum required grade (9.5V)
- Assessment of intervention skills: Stoma care (in clinical simulation) - (Pass/Fail)
The student must pass both components.
- Assessment of intervention skills: Stoma care (in clinical simulation) - (Pass/Fail)
The student must pass both components.
Teaching Staff
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