- Access a range of papers across multiple disciplines
- Earn verifiable CPD from our papers
- Keep track of your CPD progress
- Log external CPD activities
- Accessible via mobile web browsers
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About Ostomy Launchpad CPD
Ostomy Launchpad CPD is brought to you by Hollister/Dansac. It is an interactive revalidation tool for nurses which offers all users a free online portfolio so that you can easily save evidence of your progress towards NMC requirements, ready to download whenever you need it.
Your membership of Ostomy Launchpad CPD entitles you to:
- Access topical peer-reviewed content
- Learn the latest nursing standards and share best practices that will stimulate thought and reflection
- Help you fulfil your revalidation requirements
Hollister Incorporated is an independent, employee-owned company that develops, manufactures, and markets healthcare products and services worldwide.
We offer advanced medical products for Ostomy Care, which includes two strong global brands: Hollister Ostomy and Dansac Ostomy, and Continence Care. We also provide innovative healthcare programs and services, as well as educational materials for patients and healthcare professionals.
Hollister has been serving healthcare professionals and patients for over 100 years — making a difference in the journey of life for people throughout the global community.
Our Mission
Hollister dedicates itself to be a company which looks outward to the needs of healthcare professionals and the people they serve. This dedication is based on our mission: to help healthcare professionals deliver better products and services, and to make life more rewarding and dignified for those who use our products.
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Browse CPD articles
Here’s a selection of our latest articles and educational presentations. Login to see more. We’re adding new content regularly, so if you don’t find what you want straight away, chances are it will be coming soon.
Webinars and events
Clinical Characteristics of Convexity
Explore current convexity evidence with a review of recent consensus statements around Characteristics and Clinical Application of Convex Products in Ostomy Care. During the webinar, you will hear from leading experts in the field who will share their insights and experience, providing a comprehensive overview of the clinical characteristics of convexity.
Working with evidence to improve stoma care nursing
This webinar explores how to stay on top of evidence on peristomal skin care, be aware of its limitations and collaborate in research where possible. It also touches on why nurses should seek standardised postgraduate qualification in stoma care, regular educational updates for professional development and formal recognition of the clinical nurse specialist role.
Best practice in the prescription and use of ostomy products
This webinar discusses how stoma care nurses can teach ostomates the correct way to clean their skin, form a seal and use any prescribed products to avoid or resolve complications. It also details when to encourage ostomates with persistent skin problems to try different appliances to find the most appropriate pouching system, only prescribing stoma accessories when optimal appliance choice and technique are insufficient to maintain or restore peristomal skin health.
Understanding risk factors to optimise stoma care routines
This webinar covers why stoma care nurses should expect peristomal skin to remain intact and look like the skin on the rest of the ostomate’s abdomen. This leads into the importance of educating ostomates from the earliest opportunity about preventing peristomal skin complications, as well as intervening as soon as a complication occurs. This is supported by documentation of peristomal skin using clear, consistent and specific terminology, aided by photography where appropriate.
Assessment and classification of peristomal skin conditions
This webinar discusses how to ensure that assessments are holistic and comprehensive and include full patient history and review of medicines and topical products. It explores why stoma care nurses should classify and treat peristomal skin complications according to their primary cause(s), as well as base peristomal skin care on a strong therapeutic relationship, the ostomate’s individual needs and their experience of living with a complication.
Keep it simple: peristomal skin health, quality of life and wellbeing
This virtual skin health event tackles fundamental issues in maintaining skin health faced by all nurses that care for people with a stoma.
An expert health skin panel of speakers will cover key topics in skin care, from prevalence of peristomal skin complication, to assessment and psychological effects on stoma patients and much more, followed by Q&As at the end of the sessions.
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Frequently asked questions
Need any help with the use of the platform? Please click on the FAQs or do not hesitate to email or call us during the customer support hours: Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm, GMT.
Ostomy Launchpad CPD is a service from Hollister, in partnership with the British Journal of Nursing (BJN). It includes articles that have been enhanced to provide opportunities for reflection on your own practice, as well as an online portfolio to store all your revalidation requirements.
An online portfolio is simply an online place to keep records to show you have completed all your revalidation requirements. It’s where you can keep track of practice hours and CPD, and record other activity like attendance at courses or study days, reflection and other learning.
Simply complete a short registration form to create your personal account. You will then have free access to the portfolio and a selection of free CPD content.
Registration and use of the online portfolio is completely free. Registered users get free access to a growing selection of online content to help you fulfil the NMC’s CPD requirements.
Please email support@markallengroup.com with the details of which revalidation portfolios you need changing and the dates that you require.
Please provide your name and the email address that you access launchpad with. Please include in the subject of your email, ostomy-launchpad.
Please email support@markallengroup.com with the details of your old and the new email address you would like to use. Please include in the subject of your email, ostomy-launchpad.
Once you have logged in to the Launchpad:
- Click on ‘Portfolio’
- Go to relevant option of what you want to do, for example documents, click on Add documentation
- Click on Add and Enter the title of your document
- Click on ‘Browse’ to find your document that you have saved
- Click on the document and if you are happy that it’s the right document, click upload.
Click on LOGIN, then click on ‘Forgot your password’ and follow the instructions.
You will receive an email from Mark Allen Group. Please ensure that you check your junk, or spam boxes. If you do not receive an email from Mark Allen Group, please contact support@markallengroup.com
On receipt of the forgotten password email, complete a new password.
This should be of a minimum of 8 characters, made up of upper & lower case letters, at least one number and one symbol.
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Support hours are Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm, GMT.
All enquiries by email or telephone will be responded to within a 4-hour window, within our working week as outlined above. We endeavour to solve your enquiry within this time frame; however we will keep you updated at every step.