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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
For Patients

Pediatric Colostomy/Ileostomy

You are an important member of the surgical team. We want to help prepare you and your family for full participation and the best recovery. The American College of Surgeons (ACS) Ostomy Home Skills Program was developed by members of your surgical team. This program will walk you through understanding your child’s colostomy or ileostomy, skills to manage your child’s ostomy at home, problem-solving and other home management tips, as well as other resources. Watch our home skills videos to help you understand how to care for yourself or a family member after an operation.

About Your Child's Colostomy/Ileostomy
ACS Patient Tools

Ostomy Home Skills Kit

  • A booklet with information on the operation, home skills such as emptying and changing a pouch, problem solving, and home management.
  • A DVD with demonstration of each skill
  • Stoma Practice Model
  • Stoma supplies (measurement guide, marking pen, scissors, sample pouch)
  • Ostomy self-care checklist
  • Evaluation

Order a kit

Skills Checklist

Patient Evaluation

Additional Resources
Professional Resources
Pediatric Colostomy/Ileostomy/Urostomy Welcome
Pediatric Colostomy/Ileostomy/Urostomy Welcome
Pediatric Colostomy/Ileostomy: Your Child's Colostomy/Ileostomy
Pediatric Colostomy/Ileostomy: Your Child's Colostomy/Ileostomy
Pediatric Colostomy/Ileostomy: Your Child's Operation
Pediatric Colostomy/Ileostomy: Your Child's Operation
Pediatric Colostomy/Ileostomy: Pouching Systems
Pediatric Colostomy/Ileostomy: Pouching Systems
Pediatric Colostomy/Ileostomy: Emptying a Pouch
Pediatric Colostomy/Ileostomy: Emptying a Pouch
Pediatric Colostomy/Ileostomy: Changing a Pouch
Pediatric Colostomy/Ileostomy: Changing a Pouch
Pediatric Colostomy/Ileostomy: Problem Solving
Pediatric Colostomy/Ileostomy: Problem Solving
Pediatric Colostomy/Ileostomy: Life with an Ostomy
Pediatric Colostomy/Ileostomy: Life with an Ostomy