Are We Failing Our Ostomy Population?

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Barbara Dale, BSN, RN, CWOCN, CHHN, is a Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse, Quality Home Care, Livingston, Tennessee. Joanna J. Burgess, BSN, RN, CWOCN, is an Inpatient Wound/Ostomy Care, Outpatient Ostomy Clinic, WakeMed Health and Hospitals, Cary, North Carolina. Jeanine Gleba, MEd, is an Advocacy Manager, United Ostomy Associations of America, Kennebunk, Maine.

Published: April 2020

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