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Master the essentials of Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) with this comprehensive review designed for nursing and healthcare students. This resource covers key concepts, indications, administration techniques, and complication management to help you build a strong clinical foundation. Each section is structured to reinforce critical thinking, improve exam readiness, and prepare you for real‑world patient care. Whether you’re studying for class, certification, or licensure, this TPN review will boost your confidence and ensure you can deliver safe, effective nutrition therapy.

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Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)
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physician to attempt Parenteral Nutrition.
Three methods; soaking patient in a bath with crushed herbs,
administering liquid nutrients by enema and injecting liquid directly into
stomach through a large needle

2. John Hunter Credited for successfully providing the first nasogastric feeding
3. Feeding Funnels Were employed in gastric feeding for patients after surgery or those
who suttered a traumatic injury to head of neck, impeding the intake of
food

4. Levin Tube A flexible , rubber nasogastric tube- invented by US physician Abraham
Levin 1921

5. Dr
Jonathan Experiment with IV nutrients feeding. 1966 he published research on
Rhoads subclavian administration of TPN, he called hyperalimentation . He laid
the foundation for TPN

6. Tube feeding In addition to nasogastric, gastronomy G and Jejunum tube allowed to the
stomach through a surgical opening made in the skin of the abdomen

7. Home
Parenteral 1960- home Parenteral nutrition became an option for patients who
Nutrition were dis- charged but in need of continuing nutritional support. Patient
took home supplies from hospital and powdered formulas that they
need to mix and administered their own. Today there are premixed
8. Enteral bags and portable pump
feeding tube
Nasogastric - short term use- if enteral feeding is needed for more than
9. Types of Par-
enteral a few days a gastric or jejunum tube is surgically place through skin
nutrition
Long term nutrition support and are unable to receive enteral
feeding, might be prescribed Parenteral nutrition. There are two
10. Peripheral Par-
enteral types: peripheral or partial Parenteral nutrition and complete( also
Nutrition referred as Total Parenteral Nutrition

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