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| Meet the Clinicians |
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Beverley Colton
RGN
Beverley Colton has been a Stoma Care Nurse for over 25 years. She practices at the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, a large city center hospital in the UK. Bev is a member of the Stoma Care Team, which is part of the Colorectal Department. The Stoma Care Team provides hospital and community care to a large multicultural, urban and rural population. Bev believes that anyone who has a stoma should be able to return to their normal lifestyle, and she enjoys the challenge of problem solving with her patients to help ensure this happens. |
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Colleen Drolshagen
RN, APN/CNS, CWOCN
Colleen Drolshagen has been a board certified Wound, Ostomy, Continence (WOC) Nurse since 1985. She currently maintains a full inpatient and outpatient practice at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Illinois. She also has been an active volunteer of the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN) and the United Ostomy Associations of America (UOAA). Colleen has published and presented lectures both throughout the Chicago area and nationally. She is passionate about caring for people with ostomies and helping them achieve a fulfilling quality of life. |
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Connie Kelly
RN, CWON
Connie Kelly has been a Registered Nurse for 28 years, with 24 of those years as a Certified Wound Ostomy Nurse (CWON). She works at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in downtown Chicago, and received her bachelor's degree from Northern Illinois University and her Master's Degree from Rush University in Chicago. Ms. Kelly enjoys working with individuals who have an ostomy because "each person is unique and provides unending inspiration." |
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Vashti Livingston
MS, RN, CNS, CWOCN
Vashti Livingston is a Master's prepared Adult Clinical Nurse Specialist and Board Certified Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse. She has worked in home care and wound clinics, and presently practices in an outpatient clinic where she see patients for ostomies, wounds, continent urinary diversions, and incontinence management. She is the Vice President of the New York City Metro WOCN and hopes that one day every ostomy patient will have access to a WOC Nurse to help improve their quality of life. |
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Julie Morrisroe
RGN, BSc, Dip.N, ENB 216, ENB 637
Julie Morrisroe has been a Specialist Stoma Care Nurse for over 7 years. She works for a Local Primary Care NHS Trust in the northeast of England. As a member of the Stoma Care Advisory Service team, Julie provides community-based care within patients’ own homes and within nurse-led Stoma Care Clinics. She is passionate about enabling people with ostomies to maintain their quality of life. |
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Angie Perrin
RGN, BSc, Dip.N, ENB 216
Angie Perrin has been a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in stoma and colorectal nursing for almost 15 years. She currently heads a team of 5 CNSs in stoma care at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, England. Angie received her BSc in 1999 from City University in London and is completing her Nurse Practitioner MSc. Angie has a keen interest in caring for individuals who have an ileo-anal pouch and has set up one of the first nurse-led clinics for ileo-anal pouch patients in the UK. |
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Amanda Smith
BSc, ENB 216, RGN, RSCN
Amanda Smith has been a Stoma Care Specialist nurse for over 14 years. She currently works at Salford Royal Hospitals Foundation Trust in the North West of the UK in Salford, where she provides care for ostomy patients from their initial consultation throughout their entire lifetime. Amanda is especially interested in the management of peristomal skin problems and believes that all ostomy patients should be actively encouraged to return to their pre-surgery lifestyle. |
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