| Sumario: | Current UK healthcare policy is focused on improving patient outcomes and experiences of health care (Department of Health [DH], 2013). This move towards patient-centred care is a key principle of nursing practice (Royal College of Nursing, 2010), and was further highlighted in the Francis Report into failings in healthcare provision (Francis, 2013). The benefits of effective wound care management plans -- and having the nursing skills to recognise when these are not working -- can be seen in improved outcomes such as better quality of life and patients returning to the workplace, which helps to reduce the burden on NHS resources, an important factor in the current economic climate. This article outlines the best practice principles involved in stoma care nursing with a particular focus on the management of peristomal pyoderma gangrenosum. The range of interventions currently used to manage this type of wound will be examined as well as the legal and ethical issues involved.
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