Stoma Care
Master Essential Clinical Skills & Ensure Total Compliance
Equip your complex care workforce with the essential practical skills, hygiene protocols, and clinical knowledge required to manage colostomies, ileostomies, and urostomies safely. Fully aligned with CQC standards, NHS frameworks, and clinical competency guidelines.
Why Expert Stoma Care Training is Critical for Your Team
Supporting an individual with a stoma requires high levels of clinical precision, strict hygiene protocols, and an empathetic approach. Improper pouch management or poor peristomal skin care can lead to severe distress, leakages, loss of dignity, and painful systemic skin infections. Our Stoma Care course is a vital specialist module within our clinical & complex care training suite, designed to maximize safer clinical practice across the UK.
This hands-on, practical course is designed and delivered by experienced healthcare professionals and clinical trainers, ensuring your staff move seamlessly beyond theory to achieve genuine competency.
Whether you support individuals in residential care homes, supported living services, or independent complex care settings, Almans Education gives your team the practical tools to deliver safe, effective, and person-centred clinical care.
What This Course Covers
Our robust, clinical curriculum ensures your workforce is competent, compliant, and confident in handling stoma appliances and peristomal hygiene. Key modules include:
Anatomy and Physiology: Understanding the digestive and urinary tracts, and the clinical reasons for creating a colostomy, ileostomy, or urostomy.
Infection Prevention & Control (IPC): Applying rigorous hand hygiene and waste disposal protocols during appliance changes to prevent cross-contamination.
Pouch Management & Emptying: Best practices for measuring, cutting, fitting, emptying, and removing one-piece and two-piece stoma bags.
Peristomal Skin Integrity: Correct protocols for cleaning the surrounding skin, assessing stoma health, and applying protective seals or barriers.
Dietary & Lifestyle Considerations: Understanding the impact of nutrition on stoma output, hydration management, and identifying blockages or high output.
Troubleshooting & Emergency Response: Dealing with pouch leakage, skin excoriation, stoma prolapse or retraction, and professional incident escalation procedures
Course Eligibility & Entry Requirements
At Almans Education, we tailor our specialist clinical training to build solid competencies for frontline care teams.
Prior Qualifications: While there are no strict academic entry requirements, learners should ideally have completed their foundational Medication Administration or Infection Prevention and Control training before enrolling.
Language Proficiency: A good standard of written and spoken English is necessary to accurately track stoma charts, read care plans, and engage with vital medical instructions.
Clinical Scope: This course focuses on the safe care, maintenance, and appliance management of existing stomas. It does not qualify non-nursing staff to perform independent surgical or diagnostic procedures.
Who Should Attend This Training?
This training is essential for individuals looking to progress into specialized roles and care providers looking to enhance their clinical capabilities. It is highly recommended for:
Complex care staff, support workers, and healthcare assistants (HCAs)
Nurses seeking an evidence-based clinical skills refresher
Domiciliary care and supported living staff caring for individuals with complex medical needs
Residential care home teams and nursing home staff
Children’s support teams working within specialised youth or school services.
Delivering Excellence Across All Core Care Specialties
Whether you are an individual looking to progress your career or an organisation seeking professional workforce development solutions, Almans Education is here to support your journey with flexible, practical, and industry-led training