{"id":400,"date":"2025-01-29T09:58:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/enteral-feeding\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T15:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:21:19","slug":"enteral-feeding","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/registered-nurses-odp\/rn-clinical-skills\/enteral-feeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Enteral Feeding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This full day course has been developed for registered nurses who require to enhance or acquire the knowledge and skills of enteral tube feeding so to safely pass a fine bore nasogastric tube and competently replace a gastrostomy tube. The full day course involves theory and practical workshops on Ng insertion and management of ostomies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Completion of the course requires completion of an NHSL work based clinical competency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note that adult and paediatric courses are two separate courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Intended Audience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>NHS Lothian Registered nurses working in hospital and community settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aim:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To enable the Registered Nurse to provide care to patients who are receiving enteral tube feeding and to undertake the procedures of inserting +\/- managing a fine bore nasogastric tube and confirming correct position or replacing balloon gastrostomy tubes using best practice within the agreed NHS Lothian policy, protocols and procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Learning outcomes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Identify the indications for enteral\u00a0tube feeding.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Recognise potential complications of enteral\u00a0tube feeding and how to prevent or treat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Describe the procedure for managing and confirming position of nasogastric (NG) tube, inserting a NG tube, and replacing a balloon gastrostomy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Apply this knowledge to undertake insertion and or management of NG tubes and\/or replacement of balloon gastrostomies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Describe the anatomy and physiology of the gastrointestinal system.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discuss the administration of medicines via the enteral tube route.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information contact: <a href=\"mailto:loth.clinicalskillstraining@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk\"><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:loth.clinicalskillstraining@nhs.scot\">loth.clinicalskillstraining@nhs.scot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This full day course has been developed for registered nurses who require to enhance or acquire the knowledge and skills of enteral tube feeding so to safely pass a fine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":394,"menu_order":29,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/widewidth.php","meta":{"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-400","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"davidmcbain","author_link":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/author\/davidmcbain\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"This full day course has been developed for registered nurses who require to enhance or acquire the knowledge and skills of enteral tube feeding so to safely pass a fine","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/400\/revisions\/717"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}