Colostomy irrigation to maintain continence: An old method revived.

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Carole Bauer is a wound and ostomy NP at Beaumont Health System in Troy, Mich. Mary Arnold-Long is a clinical specialist in wound, ostomy, and continence at Roper Hospital in Charleston, S.C. Dea J. Kent is the director of quality assurance for long-term care and a wound care NP at Community Health Network in Fishers, Ind.

Published: August 2016

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