You are caring for a patient who has undergone creation of a urinary diversion. Forty-eight hours postoperatively the patient verbalizes that the stoma is a dark purplish color. This nurse is aware of what?
A) The stoma is healthy.
B) The stoma is infected.
C) Vascular supply to the stoma may be compromised.
D) The ostomy appliance around the stoma is too loose.
Ans: C
Feedback: A healthy stoma is beefy red. A change from this normal color to a dark purplish color suggests that the vascular supply may be compromised. A loose ostomy appliance and infections do not cause a dark purplish stoma.
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