While some patients describe life since surgery as ‘better,’ ‘healthier’, ‘happy’ and ‘free’, many report negative feelings, with the predominant words being ‘restricted’, ‘embarrassing’, ‘difficult’ and ‘inconvenient’1.
It is important to use different tools and techniques to help you and your patient feel resilient in the face of changes and challenges and have positive emotions, moods, thoughts and feelings.
There are a number of hormones which have the ability to make us more or less happy, depending on the level of that particular hormone within our bodies. In this brand new webinar, launched to coincide with World Mental Health Day 2024, therapist Nicki Williams (founder of Happy Hormones for Life) explores these hormones with Ben Rennison, Clinical Education Nurse Specialist at our Salts Academy.
A reminder of two of our Discover Series podcasts which you may find helpful in supporting your patients’ emotional wellbeing:
Dr Morwenna Opie joined Angie Perrin to explore concepts around psychological adjustment to having a stoma, helping you to feel empowered in supporting your patients through this process.
Listen to the Podcast
Nicola shares her own personal experience of the impact of having a stoma on mental wellbeing with Barbara Milleret and Breege O’Neill,Community Stoma Care Nurses.
Listen to the Podcast
Confidence BE® has a range of features that may help improve self-esteem, body image, comfort, confidence and sleep quality by helping to reduce leaks, odour, ballooning, pancaking, noise and skin irritation.
Choice of three colours: black, white and stone. Available in closed, drainable, urostomy, flat and soft convex.
The filter is designed to ensure that a gas path can always be maintained to help reduce ballooning, and to help neutralise odour.
Urostomy hydrocolloid resists fluid and erosion for longer*.
* In comparison to Salts Confidence® Natural Advance Closed and Drainable stoma bags. 25% less erosion over a 24-hour period. Data on file. Salts Healthcare 2022.
Outlet tucks away and is securely fastened with premium VELCRO® hook and loop fastener material.
Outlet tucks aways and is securely fastened with premium VELCRO® hook and loop fastener material.
Soft outlet and bung are comfortable without compromising ease of use.
Rotating and detachable bung lanyard can be moved away from urine flow when draining.
We offer a wide range of one-piece colostomy bags and two-piece colostomy bags designed to make life easier with innovative features for greater comfort, flexibility and security. We have a range of colostomy supplies for you to sample from.
Our one-piece colostomy product range includes:
Our two-piece colostomy product range includes;
Both our one-piece and two-piece closed stoma bags are available in flat and convex.
We’ve created a range of materials and content to support your well-being and professional development. From reading the latest research and evidence to hearing from fellow HCPs, you’ll find everything you need here.
