The initial focus in patient teaching is on self-care skills and daily management issues, such as dietary alternations. Once these basic skills have been mastered, the focus shifts to how to incorporate the ostomy into the person’s lifestyle. With decreasing length of stay in hospital, this is often begun in the hospital and continued at home with a visiting nurse and/or during outpatient visits. Bathing, clothing, fecal diversions, discharge planning, ostomate bill of rights are the topics which are covered throughout this chapter.