The nurse explains which advantage benefits patients with a Kock pouch ileostomy?
a. The patient can expel feces from the rec-tum in the normal fashion.
b. The patient does not have to wear a col-lection device.
c. The patient only has to evacuate the pouch once a day.
d. The patient can have the pouch reanasto-mosed to the colon at a later time.
B
The major advantage of the Kock pouch is that the patient does not have to wear a collection de-vice. The feces are collected in the pouch and emptied by the patient inserting a catheter into the pouch every 3 or 4 hours.
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