Conquer the COCN-AP Exam: Study Guide for the Certified Ostomy Care Nurse–Advanced Practice Exam Covering Advanced Ostomy Care, Assessment, Management, Patient Education, and Clinical Practice

Conquer the COCN-AP Exam provides a comprehensive review for candidates preparing for the Certified Ostomy Care Nurse–Advanced Practice Exam. The guide covers comprehensive health history, holistic and psychosocial assessment, nutrition and hydration, focused stoma and peristomal skin assessment, continent diversions and neobladders, fistulas, tubes and drains, diagnostic evaluation, patient goals and barriers to care, peristomal dermatitis, infection and trauma, complex peristomal complications, stomal perfusion, prolapse, retraction, stenosis, edema, parastomal hernia, output complications, dehydration, and nutritional and pharmacologic management.

Additional chapters address pouching systems and product selection, leakage troubleshooting, accessories and skin protection, care across clinical settings, patient education and self-management, psychosocial adaptation, sexuality and intimacy, pediatric and older-adult ostomy care, preoperative assessment and stoma-site selection, postoperative complications, discharge and transitional care, long-term surveillance, evidence-based clinical decision-making, professional practice and ethics, quality improvement, legal and regulatory considerations, health literacy, continent fecal diversions, irrigation and distal bowel management, and research and translational practice. The guide concludes with a Knowledge Check.