The nurse teaches the patient whose surgery will result in a sigmoid colostomy that the feces expelled through the colostomy will be

1. solid.
2. semi-mushy.
3. mushy.
4. fluid. 

    Correct Answer : A. solid.  

With a sigmoid colostomy, the feces are solid. 

With a descending colostomy, the feces are semi-mushy. 

With a transverse colostomy, the feces are mushy. 

With an ascending colostomy, the feces are fluid.