Overview
Keep Your Clinical Knowledge Current for Lasting Results
You can recertify the easy way by taking a WCEI® Ostomy Management course. No test, no stress, no problem!
Maintain your competitive edge and strong clinical results by recertifying for your Ostomy Management Specialist® (OMS) credential. It offers more than the possibility for professional advancement. It’s an investment in your career - and in the lives of your patients.
Recertification by Training
If your credential is through NAWCO® you do not have to sit for the certification exam if you take the onsite or online WCEI® recertification Ostomy Management course
After registering for the course, you will select a credentialing board, complete their recertification application and pay their recertification fees. The credentialing board determines your eligibility.
Certificates
Intended Audience
This course is intended for multiple professions including nurses, dietitians, physical therapists, and other healthcare professionals interested in wound care.
Continuing Education Information
Continuing education and accreditation information may be found on the certificate tab for the individual courses.
Schedule & Content
Schedule
Four-Day Course
The course includes eight (8) self-paced, home-based computer instructional modules, followed by an onsite classroom course with lectures, hands-on skills laboratories, and practice sessions.
| Days 1 - 4 |
8:00AM - 5:00PM |
Classroom Training |
Curriculum
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Wound Healing
- Section 3 Anatomy and Physiology of the Gastrointestinal System
- Section 4 GI Ostomies
- Section 5 Ostomy Surgery
- Section 6 Anatomy and Physiology of the Urinary System
- Section 7 Urinary Diversions
- Section 8 Urinary Disorders that May Require Surgery
- Section 9 Adjustment to a Stoma
- Section 10 Stoma Assessment
- Section 11 Stoma Siting
- Section 12 Appliances, Pouching, and Accessory Products for Stoma Care
- Section 13 Peristomal Skin Complications
- Section 14 Stoma Complications
- Section 15 Fistula Management
- Section 16 Special Ostomy Procedures
- Section 17 Appliance Assessment
- Section 18 Tube Management
- Section 19 Pediatric Ostomy Management
- Section 20 Patient Education
Learning Objectives
- List key characteristics required for stomal and peristomal skin assessment.
- Discuss the different types and indications of pouching systems and accessories used with stoma pouching systems.
- Explain the steps of stoma siting procedure for optimal location on abdomen for a stoma.
- Discuss emotions that a new ostomy patient is likely to experience before and after the creation of a stoma or a continent diversion.
- Discuss the etiology, identification and treatment - both conservative and surgical, if appropriate - of the five stomal complications.
- Differentiate between types of fistulas, in terms of causative factors, pathophysiology and principles of management.
- List indications, contraindications and procedure steps for colostomy irrigation.
- Describe causes, symptoms and interventions for ileostomy food blockage.
- Identify the purpose, design, location in the intestine, and methods of accessing and management of three enterostomal and three enterostomy tubes.
- State how to assess for, prevent and manage four enteral tube complications.
- Discuss conditions in the pediatric patient that may require a fecal or urinary diversion.
- Summarize the management of a pediatric patient with a urinary or fecal diversion.
- Summarize the goals of pre-operative teaching, list what should be covered, and develop an individualized teaching plan for a patient based on an assessment of their learning needs.
- Demonstrate a stoma assessment.
- Demonstrate application, emptying and removal of a cut to fit two-piece pouching system.
- Demonstrate patient teaching methods for application, emptying and removal of a pouching system.
- Demonstrate the “crusting” procedure.
- Explain the goals of post-operative teaching, list what should be covered, and develop an individualized teaching plan based on an assessment of their learning needs.