Perspectives on Survivorship Care of Patients with a Stoma and WOCNs' Role in Implementation of Survivorship Care Plans(SCP)

Cancer patients with a stoma relating to quality of life issues have been demonstrated.
Patients with a stoma are having many serious issues in their lives. Specifically, inflammatory bowel disease and cancer survivors with a stoma have experienced uncertainty relating to the recurrence of cancer itself, impaired sexuality relating to the stoma, possibilities to be able to return and maintenance their social life with stoma complications, bowel or stoma functions relating to chemotherapy including other treatments. Moreover, patients with a stoma need plans to cope with a stoma having peristomal skin problems, parastomal herniation, and also long-term care for survivors with stoma influencing their quality of life.  
Enhanced and comprehensive scopes of knowledge in long-term care and identification of the strategies of survivorship care to recommend survivorship care plans for patients with a stoma are required for WOCNs. Further research on evidence based practice for survivorship care in patients with a stoma is necessary. WOCNs should have perspectives on the survivors’ needs including barrier of issues, need for collaboration between physicians and nurses, and implement survivorship care plans. WOCNs can play a pivotal role for patients as a coordinator to develop survivorship care plans.