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Therapeutic Patient Education: A Multifaceted Approach to Ostomy Care
Laurence Lataillade1, Laurent Chabal
1Laurence Lataillade, CNS, is Stomatherapist, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland. Laurent Chabal, BSc (CBP), RN, OncPall (Cert), Dip (WH), ET, EAWT, is Stomal Therapy Nurse and Lecturer, Geneva School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland. Acknowledgment: The wound section of this article was partially based on notes taken during the University Conference Model session that took place at the 2017 Congress of the European Wound Management Association in Amsterdam, the Netherlands presented by Julie Jordan O'Brien, Clinical Nurse Specialist Tissue Viability and Véronique Urbaniak, Advanced Practice Nurse. The authors have disclosed no financial relationships related to this article. This article was originally published as Lataillade L, Chabal L. Therapeutic patient education; a multifaceted approach to healthcare. WCET J 2020;40(2):35-42. © Advances in Skin and Wound Care and World Council of Enterostomal Therapists.
Abstract:
This contribution presents a literature review of therapeutic patient education and a summary of an oral presentation given by two wound care specialists at a recent European Congress. It relates these to models of care in nursing science and other research that contributes to this approach at the core of healthcare practice.
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