The nurse is most likely to report which finding to the primary care provider for a client who has an established colostomy?

The stoma color is a deep red purple.

An established stoma should be dark pink like the color of the buccal mucosa and is slightly raised above the abdomen. The skin under the appliance may remain pink/red for a while after the adhesive is pulled off feces from an ascending ostomy are very liquid. less so from a transverse ostomy. and more solid from a descending or sigmoid stoma.