Tube Feeding & Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) Nursing
Guide.
-Anorexia
-Orofacial fractures
-Head/neck cancer
-Burns
-Sepsis
-Nutritional deficiencies
1. Indications for -Neurological conditions: stroke, Parkinson's disease
Enteral -Psychiatric conditions
Nutrition -Chemotherapy
-Radiation therapy
-Nasogastric
-Esophagostomy
-Gastrostomy
-Nasoduodenal or nasojejunal
2. Common -Daily weights
Enteral feeding
-Assess for bowel sounds before feedings
locations
-Accurate I&O
-Initial glucose checks
3. Enteral -Label with date and time started
nutrition: -Pump tubing changed q24h
General
nursing -Overfeeding
considerations
-Diarrhea
-Aspiration: aspiration pneumonia
-Refeeding syndrome
4. Complications
of Enteral
nutrition
(feedings)
5. Overfeeding -Results from infusion of a greater quantity of feeding than can be readily
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, Tube Feeding & Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) Nursing
Guide.
digested, resulting in abdominal distention, nausea, and vomiting
6.
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6
Guide.
-Anorexia
-Orofacial fractures
-Head/neck cancer
-Burns
-Sepsis
-Nutritional deficiencies
1. Indications for -Neurological conditions: stroke, Parkinson's disease
Enteral -Psychiatric conditions
Nutrition -Chemotherapy
-Radiation therapy
-Nasogastric
-Esophagostomy
-Gastrostomy
-Nasoduodenal or nasojejunal
2. Common -Daily weights
Enteral feeding
-Assess for bowel sounds before feedings
locations
-Accurate I&O
-Initial glucose checks
3. Enteral -Label with date and time started
nutrition: -Pump tubing changed q24h
General
nursing -Overfeeding
considerations
-Diarrhea
-Aspiration: aspiration pneumonia
-Refeeding syndrome
4. Complications
of Enteral
nutrition
(feedings)
5. Overfeeding -Results from infusion of a greater quantity of feeding than can be readily
1/
6
, Tube Feeding & Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) Nursing
Guide.
digested, resulting in abdominal distention, nausea, and vomiting
6.
2/
6
