This episode of WOCTalk is all about managing patients with high output stomas. During today’s episode, Diane Bryant, Certified Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse for Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and Board Member of the WOCN Society sits down for a discussion with Dr. Mary Arnold Long regarding her presentation “Slowing the Flow: Dietary, Fluid & Medication Management of the Patient with A High Output Stoma” at the WOCN Society’s 50th Annual Conference. Keep listening for a deeper dive into the challenges of high output stomas that nurses, patients and their families may face.
Managing the high output stoma is a challenge for the patient, the family and the nurse. If the stoma is poorly managed, it can lead to local and systemic complications. In this episode of WOCTalk, Dr. Mary Arnold Long reviews the causes and consequences of a high output stomas, as demonstrated in her past educational session, “Slowing the Flow: Dietary, Fluid & Medication Management of the Patient with a High Output Stoma”.
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Speaker Bio
Dr. Mary Arnold Long DNP, CRRN, CWOCN-AP, ACNS-BC
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Roper Hospital
Mary Arnold Long obtained an Enterostomal Therapy certificate from Abbott-Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, MN. She achieved CETN (now CWOCN) certification in 1994 & advanced practice CWOCN certification in 2009. She is also board certified as a certified rehabilitation registered nurse (CRRN) & as an adult health clinical nurse specialist (ACNS-BC). In 2016 she was awarded her doctorate in nursing from Otterbein University.
Mary has served the Regional and National Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses SocietyTM (WOCN®) in many roles. In 2005, she was awarded the College of Mount St. Joseph Alumni Leadership Award. In 2008, she received the MidEast Region WOCN “CWOCN Nurse of the Year” award. In 2015, she was honored with a “Palmetto Gold” award, recognizing her as one of the 100 best nurses in South Carolina. In 2017, she was recognized as an Oak Hills High School Distinguished Alumnus. She practices full scope WOC Nursing inpatient and has an ostomy outpatient practice, at Roper Hospital in Charleston, SC.