Nurses Helping Nurses
allnurses Network: Central | Jobs | Books | Newsletter
allnurses: A Nursing Community for Nurses
Home General News Blogs Articles Students Region Specialty Degrees F.A.Q.
Gastroenterology Nursing /

Enteral Feeding (PEG/G/J tubing)



Did You Know?
allnurses is the largest community for nurses on the web. We now have over 385,841 members! Join today to network with other nurses, laugh, share, and much more.

Jun 28, 2009 07:32 AM

Enteral Feeding (PEG/G/J tubing)


I'm looking for some decent, not-to-complex literature, advice and experiences regarding enteral nutrition - particular gastrostomy and also jejunostomy based tubing and feeds (e.g. PEG tubes). I'm currently a student but we haven't covered this in classes or clinicals yet, however I've started working in a prestigious children's facility (a hospice, also providing respite care for the terminally ill) where long-term stomach tubes are common place. I'd like to know more about them and how to administer feeds (both at a rate with the pump and bolus). The staff at the facility are great and have been talking me through the feeds, showing me how things work and so forth, but I would like a significantly larger knowledge base before anyone lets me touch these kids tubes.

So far Google hasn't proven to useful, though I did find one e-book - Tube feeding: practical guidelines and nursing protocols - as well as the auSPEN (Australasian Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition) Clinical Practice Guidelines (and of course my text books).
  • One thing that I'm finding really confusing is that all the kids have different buttons/tubes with different ports and access points and I'm not sure how to distinguish each tube/button based on literary descriptions.
  • The other thing I'm really after is a step-by-step guide for bolus and pump feeds in nurse speak (not text book speak!) I've got the basics from listening and observing at work and I get that lots of nurses have their own ways about things, but I'd love to hear how YOU have learnt this procedure/how you implement it.

Thanks a heap!


Share: Submit Thread to Facebook Submit Thread to Twitter Submit Thread to Technorati Submit Thread to Google Submit Thread to Reddit

Search Tags
enteral feeding, enteral nutrition, gastrostomy, peg tube
Top

 
Advertisement
Sponsored Links
 
Reply
1 Comment
No. 1
from vsking1
Old Jul 02, 2009, 12:23 AM

Default Re: Enteral Feeding (PEG/G/J tubing)
There are many different kinds of buttons/tubes out there. If you can find out specifically what brand of tubes are used, you may get more detailed descriptions. In the ones that I see most often, I tell what kind of button they are by the way they look and how many ports they have. Mic-key buttons will have an extra port that is needed to put water in to inflate the balloon that keeps it in the stomach. BARD kinds will just have the one port if it's a g-button or possible 2 ports if it is a g-j tube. Mic-key would have 3 ports in that case. They will usually have the size imprinted on the button itself.

As far as step-by-step guide... are you wondering how to actually administer feeds/meds from start to finish or is there a particular portion that you have questions about?
Top
 
Reply




Thread Tools


Who's Online
340 members
3,081 guests
3,421

9

Doctors-in-short-supply-responsibilities-for-nurses-may-expa...

8

Less regular sleep for ICU nurses may lead to errors

15

Nurse sends unused medical supplies to needy nations

23

Premature Births Are Fueling Higher Rates of Infant...

6

MRSA Strain Linked to High Death Rates

24

RI hospital fined $150,000 in 5th wrong-site surgery since...

64

Nursing: One of the 6 Thriving Jobs that are Here to Stay???

89

Dad Fights Hospital to Keep Baby on Life Support

12

A nurse can dream...about awesome nursing

17

California Nursing Situation - CINHC's plan to help New...






Currently Reading This Page: 1 (0 members & 1 guests)

Interested in the hottest topics of the week? Subscribe to the Nurse-zine Newsletter.
Enter email address: